Posted on 10/21/2019 10:19:15 AM PDT by budj
Democratic presidential hopeful Andrew Yang is holding a press conference on his ‘Humanity First’ platform Monday at the National Press Club in Washington, DC.
From the event’s description:
Yang will speak about his “Humanity First” platform, including his flagship proposal, the Freedom Dividend, human-centered capitalism, and the mounting crisis of the automation of labor.
The press conference is slated to begin at 12:00 p.m. Eastern.
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
“Death to America!” Yang explained.
Is this Yang’s way of saying we should share our wealth with every country too stupid to produce rather than war?
“Is this Yang’s way of saying we should share our wealth with every country too stupid to produce rather than war?”
Yes and no, mainly yes.
Yang has a good point about jobs being lost to automation. This is the real reason to limit immigration. There is simply not going to be work for unskilled illiterate workers. In another 15 to 20 years fams will be completely automated. Medical care is going to be computerized perhaps sooner than that.
Unlike previous phases of the industrial revolution, the coming phase will not create jobs.
His question is a good one. How are people going to live if there is nothing they can do that a machine cannot do better and cheaper?
I disagree with a lot of his answers but he is asking the right questions.
NOT Governments role. If Government ran the economy we would still be making rotary dial phones and ban ATMS “to preserve Jobs”. Yang, like the rest of the current Democrat Fascist Party are complete lunatic fringe wack jobs whose idea of a “solution” is far far far worse then the “problem” it is suppose to solve.
I agree with most of your statements.
But the day is rapidly approaching where the idea of work/career/job is going to have a completely new meaning.
As to the government’s role: I gave you one. Limit immigration. The jobs those people seek are not going to be there in 15 to 20 years anyway
You're right about jobs for unskilled illiterate workers drying up... but the new robotics revolution will create many jobs and new industries. When I was younger and computers didn't have screens - and were programmed with punch cards... the word was that computers would replace most workers. The tech industries employ millions. My grandmother worried dial phones would replace operators... which did happen - later computers basically finished off that occupation. I'm guessing some jobs will be lost but many more will be formed.
I have been asking that same question for over thirty years and finally people are beginning to see the rational for the worry.
People that have not kept up can get their mind changed just be exploring the Farm and construction videos on YouTube. Several years ago having not been near a train since 1963 I noticed that railroad ties were now made of cement not logs. Or take a look at how a single operator can deforest an acre of land faster than a logger cold down a few trees, let alone trim an have ready for loading.
Same goes for any other industrial process. I watched a mercedes being made beginning with a roll of sheet steal and finishing with a car on the other end. I didn't see a human until they got to putting the lights on the rear door, then wiring, dash and seats. I also watched a Mercedes truck factory turn out big trucks all with custom features at the rate of one every 90 seconds. Compare that with Ford's assembly line of old when cars were little more that buggies with engines added.
Georgia Girl, school yourself over on YouTube on farm automation or any other construction job. Watch how a five man crew can lay railroad track, or even go out and replace a railroad tie in a matter of minutes. Big farming should be a real revelation to you, even fruit picking is losing to the robot.
I have said from the beginning of the health care boondoggle that computers would be the only way to solve health care for the masses and now with AI, computers do a better job of diagnosing symptoms than doctors and they blow them away on reading scans or X-rays.
You would probably be shocked how many news stories are totally written buy computers that glean information from the web. Even sitcoms have been written entirely by computers. I don't like it necessarily but it is happening and there are already companies that have been licensed by the FFA to produce flying cars, which you can also see on YouTube.
What will the robots not be able to make or do better cheaper and faster than humans? You’ll struggle to find something. Where exactly or even generally are the new jobs coming from?
Accounting? Gone.
Legal fields? Gone.
Fast food? Gone.
Farming? Gone.
Mining? Gone
Teaching? Gone.
Industrial Jobs? Gone.
Taxi driver? Gone.
Clerks and Sales? Gone
Banking? Gone.
R&D? Mostly gone.
Trade Unions? Gone because nobody will have a trade.
Police? Mostly Gone because the driverless car won’t violate any traffic laws.
Delivery guys? Extinct and replaced by drones
Sex Workers? The Japanese are already developing robot girlfriends
Soldier? I hope not but fighter pilots yeah.
Clergy? Probably still here.
We’re almost to the point where the supervisors of robots will be other robots. That means the new jobs that open up are going to be filled with other electronic workers, not people that have been laid off from their old jobs. I’d hire a robot over any SJW right now if I were an employer.
Acting? CGI is going to replace live actors. This will lower the cost of making movies because they won’t have to pay Brad Pitt 50 million a gig and the CGI Brad Pitt never gets old. The graphics are getting that good. Maybe 20 or 30 years and Hollywood will be Hollygone.
This is not going to be like the 1950s or 1980s. There is going to be a huge amount of social dislocation in the next couple of decades. And unlike the past, I do not see where any new jobs are coming from.
What is supposed to open up? You cannot name a field that will not be overtaken by automated workers. (Maybe counseling, and I am not so sure about even that.)
We will be left with basically artisan stuff. Do you want handwoven wool cloth for your trousers? Great, but what are you going to use to buy it? I am not saying it is going to be all bad If handled right there will be huge benefits. For example, as the health care system is robotized even the cost will fall. That robot surgeon can operate 24/7/365 without making a mistake. We are standing on the brink of the most tremendous golden age in the history of the planet or on the edge of creating our own actual hell on Earth.
Given the history of humanity, I’d bet on the hell on Earth.
I think if I were 20 rather than 60 I’d become really proficient in a hobby that could maybe replace a career.
Please note, I am not planning to vote for Mr. Yang. But, he is the only one talking about this stuff. It is a real problem and it is only going to get worse.
Yang is a fool because he supports open borders. Let the Central Americans stay in their backward society and labor there until technology arrives We don’t need them here. We’re gonna have enough problems find things for the people already here to do.
Yeah, I have a somewhat dystopic view of the near future.
I never said the sky was falling, you said not to worry about AI replacing people. I gave you plenty of examples that proved you have no clue what has happened in that area recently. People are being replaced and when I watch newly built production lines they seem to have left many make-work jobs in their process, that to me look very simple to automate.
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