I would like one of those Butler-bots in “Sleeper”.
Can we have a bot POTUS? Something that actually recognizes logic?
By dint of regulation and taxation, government has functionally outlawed employing actual people for many tasks. Add to that the destruction of the education system, resulting in a ‘workforce’ as ignorant as a Houston Congresswoman and it becomes a mathematical necessity for businesses to replace as many warm bodies as possible with automation.
If the bots are from Microsoft, they’ll be fired for taking too much sick leave!
hey Mr. Bill...I'd like to know what robot is going to wipr your ugly little butt when you're just another demented peasant?...and what bot is going to put that catheter up your ying yang to drain your bladder?..and who is going to to dress your open sores on your coccyx and who is going to doing rescue breathing for you when you're dying?....
the whole fact of the matter is that there will actually be need for MORE jobs in the long run...but they won't be manufactuting...they'll be FIXING things and transporting things and taking care of children and adults....
I was employed in a very well paid job. One day I made notes about the incredible number of mindless repetitive tasks I did and started thinking up ways to automate them. Most of them could have been automated using just Excel. Granted you’d need to know how to program in Excel, but it all doable. Tasks I regularly spent four to six hours on could be automated with eight hours work and then be virtually free after that. I looked around and listed all the tasks my department did that could be done away with. My boss was horrified. He said, in a threatening voice, “Fine, but you’ll be the first one laid off.”
We had government contracts and in general we were instructed to take the longest possible route. The more we charged the more the company made. (And that, is one reason why stuff costs the taxpayer so much.)
From the customer POV, you no longer have a waiter/waitress interrupting your meal every 10 minutes asking "how's everything tasting today?" but you do wait a little longer for coffee/soda/water refills. Bar service on the other hand seems faster. ;-)
He also suggested doing away with income and payroll taxes and NOT raising the minimum wage. Hmmmmm.
Then why the he double hockey sticks do we need more immigrants to fill jobs?
All I know is amnesty will fix this.
This would explain his obsession with population control.
The elites have decided they won’t need us. And they’re working hard to meet that goal.
That's all the more reason why we ought to restore the import tariffs and bring as much manufacturing home as possible.
That's all the more reason why we ought to restore the import tariffs and bring as much manufacturing home as possible.
"I am not afraid of Howard. There's just no credible threat!"
This is a trend that begun with the industrial revolution.
I can list dozen of jobs that no longer exist because of automation (just from within my life time).
Businesses make financial decisions. They do not care if they employe a machine or a person. As long as they can get good quality work for low cost. If a person can do it, fine, if a machine can do it, that is also fine.
As someone else posted, government rules and regulations are making people more expense and trouble to hire and keep.
For individual businesses it makes sense to cut the number of real people and replace them with machines, but what will happen when the majority of people do not have a job or an income (other than welfare which is just a wealth transfer from those that are still working to those that are not)?
It is almost impossible to predict the future, but one thing can be predicted. No trend remains forever. Something will occur to change the way things are going.
Technology cant possibly compare with this administration over killing jobs.
Yeah Bill. When you develop a dissecting aneurism, stay home with your bot. Stay the hell outta my ER.
I said a long time ago that we were “technologing” ourselves out of work. When I started my post-Army retirement civilian job, I was covering two attorneys in a law firm. I was working as hard as I could to stay up with them. By the time I retired out in 2007, 14 years later, I was covering FIVE attorneys. Because of computers and such the attorneys were now doing work that I used to do. The more it gets that way, the fewer legal assistant jobs there will be. Our firm had let several jobs go unhired when people left and those attorneys just paired out to other LA’s to cover. It is only going to get worse. Just wait till McDonalds has technology cooking the burgers, answering the drive thru and the robut handing you your order after you swiped your One World Government Credit Card to pay for the order.