getting rid of $100K+ a year dock workers will be a good startOne thing robotics WILL do, is negate much of the advantage of having Third World people to work in your sweatshops.
China is very concerned, hence this CNN story.
Science fiction movies aren’t science fiction...they’re roadmaps. Think “I, Robot”.
I read this article, it was an attack on Trump for using tariffs. The article pretends that the reason for the opioid crisis was because of robots instead of that lovely healthcare law. It also fails to address reality on the job losses due to propping up the developing world.
“The Luddites, who smashed machinery during the Industrial Revolution, were right to fight back. Much like today’s factory workers, they weren’t going to benefit from new technology.”
Fast forward a few years and the craftsmen who hand-darned socks while living in hovels with nothing in the way of amenities had taken jobs maintaining and feeding the sock machines. They lived in houses with chamber pots, owned machine made cutlery and tea pots, from which they could pour the newest drink, tea. Yes, there was a huge disruption from the “comfortable” status quo. But that disruption drove even more change. People immigrated to get a better life. People took jobs that stretched their minds and improved their living standards. It wasn’t all roses, by all means.
Make no mistake, striking dock workers are trying to keep things the way they were to maintain socialist benefits like free health care and defined benefit pensions, both of which have already disappeared for most of us. They are, because of their contracts, hugely overpaid and that is driving innovation and AI to replace them just like the threat of $15/hour minimum wages drove the development of the automated McDonald’s.
Automation is one reason why America should stop immigration by unskilled, illiterate people. They already have limited chances for success and mostly become a burden on the public charge. America needs innovation to keep ahead of the other world’s powers, like China. America is currently at full employment but as innovation and automation take effect workers at the bottom must either learn new skills or give up. Whether they adapt or not will be a function of their inherent IQ. (Among other factors.)
Too many regulations make humans too expensive to hire vs advancing technology.
Here at the local Walmart, they put in about 24 self-serve cash registers. My daughter, who’s a registrar there, might get moved. However, even the self-serve need attendants to help some of the customers, verify your age if you buy alcohol, etc.
I am looking forward to fully automated fast food outlets. No attitude, no contaminating food because they want to demonstrate their hatred of another group that day and no missed parts of the order. Machines really are better.
I, for one, welcome our new robot overlords.
America is going to need some form of UBI (Universal Basic Income) to keep the peace in our streets and neighborhoods.
This time, it really is different.
Robots and AI software are now reaching into every business in America.
They are going take many, many more jobs than they will create.
Any change is always a rough ride.
There is no more pampered loathsome group of lazy slobs than dock workers. I may offend a few here but tough. Replace them with machines.
Gee, offshoring to the 3rd killed more jobs and small towns across the red state America than robotics will ever destroy. Those jobs didn’t “disappear” the were shipped out. If that totally socio-economic destructive process didn’t cause a revolt then nothing will I guess. This is a BIG NOTHING BURGER.
Fast food - robots
Ag - robots
Truck driving - robots
Construction - robots
That’s exaaaactly what we have illegal aliens for, now.
If they’re ALREADY heavily over-taxing state resources now, how will it be when all their jobs are robots?
They will nearly all be on welfare, some of them several times over.
In Calif you could have 30% unemployment, maybe 50% or more.
The really important thing is the wall, and then to start kicking the illegals out.
If we allow those who will not, or can not learn, to control the pace of technological evolution, we would still be walking everywhere and witch doctors would be our masters.
Every job is at risk. Even doctors. I see a medical booth in the near future. You step in, the door closes and the checkup begins. Sonic, inferred, air pressure, x-ray etc.
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