Posted on 06/09/2016 5:10:26 AM PDT by IBD editorial writer
A new estimate says that robots will perform more than half of all jobs by 2045, leaving the frightening prospect that millions of once solidly middle-class people will be left idle and jobless. [snip] So: Is this it for human labor?
Hardly. Since the Industrial Revolution, jeremiads about the end of human labor have been sounded with great frequency. Theyve never come true.
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The difference prior was that no machine could do jobs without the aid of a human being. Now entire factories can be set up and only a few humans needed, primarily to ensure the care of machines.
That’s what is different now.
Doubtful. I repair robots.
We need laws to limit automation.
...We need laws to limit automation....
Liberals will pass laws and make regulations. Not a problem
Bring on the robots, kick out the illegals.
In the year 5555
Your arms are hanging limp at your side
You legs got nothing to do
Some machine’s doing that for you
I agree.
A couple of million jobs could be gone tomorrow if the powers that be wanted it that way. Factor in artificial intelligence and the breakneck speed by which robots are being improved right now.
The real danger lies in what do we do with all these Common Core educated, mind numbed, indoctrinated 20-somethings, who can’t think critically to save their life?
I think this is the primary reason Agenda 21 plans on ‘eliminating’ half the world population. There will simply be nothing for them to do except consume food, water, and oxygen. And breed.
How about a tariff on robots to protect jobs?
...And once robots become semi sentient, liberals will need to pass laws to give mecha voting rights. Of course, none of that will come to pass unless they create robot consumers who will buy the products and services provided by that very same mecha, because the skins surely won’t be able to.
I wish a robot would take Barry’s job and be programmed by Donald Trump in order to get us through this difficult days of the cretin’s last gasp.
If we’d put a robot online some time ago we’d have avoided the perverted edicts that this liar has barfed forth: like LGBT Month!
if you are a long haul truck driver, you have 5 more years of work....better plan now
I think everybody’s got about 5 years.
We still have pilots
I wish.
I am so screwed.
They are so screwed.
Everybody is so screwed.
You are so screwed.
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