Posted on 04/08/2006 3:25:10 PM PDT by Reaganesque
The thing is since our government doesn't enforce our laws, they're prodominately moving to the construction industry (because of the pay). So while I think the elimination of labor through technology is a good thing in my mind, they'll flood the jobs that many Americans can and definitely want to do.
We would already have this stuff if cheap slaves weren't available to be easily exploited. Citizens with rights are just too darned expensive for the would-be plantations.
Just doing the jobs illegals won't do.
"...the robot can be set to (work) 24 hours a day right through the night without the need for a break."
Hmmm...Border Patrol robots...now there's an idea.
Push is going to come to shove pretty quickly in the construction industry. Even if the housing bubble doesn't burst (and I think it will, big time this year) higher interest rates will definately slow construction, and out of work Americans are going to covet those jobs the illegals have been taking.
What's going through my mind is...what's going to happen to many third world nations when even labor isn't necessary via technology?
Everyone will be needing an education to even function. Not that I don't think there are major benefits to this kind of society...I just have doubts that many countries can pick-up the pace in this area....sometimes I doubt our educational system will keep up.
Robotics are great but they require a skilled person to set up and maintain. When I was a paint room foreman I kept track of two paint robots. They did a fair job but the total system wasn't ideal so they required lots of tweaking when there were parts or color changes.
Overall the two bots probably saved us from hiring one and a half extra painters.
A tight labor market produces beneficial side-effect in the way of technological advance?
Who knew?
</sarc>
DUmmies railing on about the supposed menace of a non-existent 'labor shortage' seem intellectually incapable of grasping the negative impacts that a glut of unskilled and uneducated labor have upon society.
Did you ping me for a reason? Do you think you just had some sort of a revelation?
Robots doing the jobs Americans refuse do for slave-wages with no unwanted societal side-effects PING.
Tell me...
I was born and raised around a family that's engulfed with union thoughts. Somehow I have my own independent mind, with a general understanding of why they have their positions. I've yet to meet a union worker whom likes illegal immigration. I'm shocked that dem leaders are just shunning their base votes. While I've never voted for a dem, I know some of my relatives are really starting to see them for their true colors.
I must note that I dislike Rhinos more than dems...atleast they're openly against me and not backstabbers.
No revelation. Just further de-pantsing the 'labor shortage' myth.
"DUmmies railing on about the supposed menace of a non-existent 'labor shortage' seem intellectually incapable of grasping the negative impacts that a glut of unskilled and uneducated labor have upon society."
To be emphasized.
Illegals don't have a say until they become legal and can unionize.
A new constituency for the dems. takes shape: the robot vote. Look for robot riots demanding rights.
One would hope that our Congress would think of the long term impact of amnesty to a large number of untrained workers. The only way they will be useful in the future will be if we also provide the education to make them useful.
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