There’s a huge field of tech support out there to fix/program these things.
I’ll worry about the problem of mass unemployment when I can get a remodel on my house done without taking a bank loan, when I can get gardening and my house cleaned at $10/hour, when I can get my car fixed at less than $100/hr, when there are so many humans looking for work that I no longer have to put up with voice mail hell.
It’s very easy to get rid of unemployment - get rid of 90% of welfare, section 8, food stamps, minimum wage, fake disability, and unemployment will become non existing, robots or not.
Of course. Consider the widespreat unemployment of blacksmiths and stablehands in the era of motorozed vehicles, and everything it takes to keep them fueld up and running down the road. Or the family farm of our grandafther’s time.
If robots displace manual laborers, what’s to become of those workers who lack the intelligence and ambition to master the skills needed for those high tech jobs?
A good example is cell phones. Do to automated cheap production half the world population now has one. That greatly improves productivity. Not to mention literacy.
I’m looking to go back to night school for a few classes in industrial robotics.
Where’s that leave those on the left half of the bell curve?
There’s a huge field of tech support out there to fix/program these things.
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Awfully good point...touche