Coming to a town near you!
Posted on 12/01/2017 7:04:17 AM PST by C19fan
Over the next 13 years, the rising tide of automation will force as many as 70 million workers in the United States to find another way to make money, a new study from the global consultancy McKinsey predicts.
That means nearly a third of the American workforce could face the need to pick up new skills or enter different fields in the near future, said the report's co-author, Michael Chui, a partner at the McKinsey Global Institute who studies business and economics.
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This still won’t reduce sexual assault cases.
So I am good for more years than I would like.
It's a nothing issue.
Coming to a town near you!
“Robots could replace nearly a third of the U.S. workforce by 2030”
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So...
So then why the rush to increase immigration? Send like someone is lying
They better program the robots to buy stuff.
I am retired so there is little chance of me getting replaced. To take a day off now I have to go to work.
This still won’t reduce sexual assault cases. ...
On or by robots?
I wonder what McKinsey found out about past automation. How did our current employment picture evolve?
I look at my level of automation in my own self-employed market research occupation.
I developed some software to help load stories on my website and do various research and report-production tasks.
But you still cannot take myself out of the loop because all the programs imply someone who understands my own processes very well to run those programs. There are many tasks it would take along time for someone else to learn. So I need to automate at a deeper level.
My guess we'll do just fine with automation. But the key is flexibility. In our prior, heavily-regulated workplace it was tough for entrepreneurs to operate successfully.
Also the tax cuts the Trump administration is pushing will make life easier for the workplace to remain fluid and flexible.
New skills doing what?
Robots aren’t the bad guys. How many human workers have been displaced by engine-driven as opposed to human-driven equipment(e.g. earthmoving equipment), production lines, cheaply produced and formed plastics, computer-aided activities, better-designed equipment that has lower operating and maintenance costs.
There was a huge push for high automation and robotics in the auto industry, from the early 80’s, up to the mid 90’s.
Then NAFTA and china came along.
It was, and still is, much cheaper to have manual labor offshore than it is to spend on capital equipment for a US based operation.
The only thing that is bringing automation back to the US is cheap robotics, comtrols, and machinery from asia.
“They better program the robots to buy stuff”
Very good point!
Experts been saying this since the 1950s. Still not going to happen.
How about hordes of angry, lawless people?
How many mechanical and electrical engineers and factory workers does it take to support a robot?
We’ve robots than clean our floors. Are we to presume that this requires skill? The robots that drive vehicles, perhaps they require a bit more education/skill. The first time on the road, recent reports read the driver-less transportation devise collided with another vehicle. Lesson learned: robots are ok for some duties, but totally unreliable for others. Can’t wait until congress begins to write laws which state all robots are deserving of a free college education and politicians run with such a premise.
I know of what you speak. I like when they used to tell me about how much they will save on electricity with robots, yes they run on air and a few drops of water twice a day. HA HA HA HA HA
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