And that percentage is increasing.
This is going to be a problem.
Indeed. You can read all about it here:
Posted on 02/27/2021 5:11:39 AM PST by RoosterRedux
More than outright destroying jobs, automation is changing employment in ways that will weigh on workers.
The big picture: Right now, we should be less worried about robots taking human jobs than people in low-skilled positions being forced to work like robots.
What's happening: In a report released late last week about the post-COVID-19 labor force, McKinsey predicted 45 million U.S. workers would be displaced by automation by the end of the decade, up from 37 million projected before the pandemic.
Yes, but: McKinsey notes that despite the displacements, the total number of jobs is projected to increase.
The catch: McKinsey finds that while the total number of jobs will increase, “nearly all net job growth over the next decade is projected to be in high-wage occupations" — which is not good news for workers with low job skills.
Zoom in: To better understand the effect of automation on employees in low-skilled jobs, Brynjolfsson and Matt Beane of the University of California-Santa Barbara (UCSB) have been carrying out detailed studies of one field that has experienced tremendous employment growth recently: e-commerce warehouses.
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The Army won’t take you if your IQ is below 83. Below that level, you can’t really be trained to do anything remotely useful.
10% of the population has an IQ below 83.
As simple jobs are increasingly automated, the cut-off won’t remain at 83. It will go higher. A significant portion of the population won’t have a prayer of making any contribution.
This is going to be a problem.
Maybe they can dig ditches to lay the conduit for the fiber.
This has been going on for the last 100+ years.
And that percentage is increasing.
This is going to be a problem.
Indeed. You can read all about it here:
Some dogs have a higher IQ. Depending on their loyalty and disposition, some people would make really excellent pets. Think Christie Brinkley's DNA spliced with the brain DNA of a golden retriever. Those puppies would fetch $200,000 easy.
The only real difference is the velocity of implementation and displacement of workers.
I could swear Henry Fords innovation was called the same thing a hundred years ago...
I just happen to have one of those kind of dogs! A genuine farm-run American mutt!
If you ever met him you’d concur. He can walk backwards on four legs better than most people can do it with two! When I used to try to train him he’d pick it up pretty quick. I got tired of doing it so he graduated early.
Great thing (and sometimes bad thing) about smart dogs is that though they may not hear everything you expect them to, they hear a lot more than you know.
You don’t train such dogs, you just come to a mutual understanding with them.
I could a third hand. Or maybe a second opposable thumb?
If we brought back the Draft, we’d at least get a portion of the U.S. population “squared away”.
I think a high percentage of American men would be quite happy to leave the work force in exchange for a no-work lower middle class guaranteed income.
Unfortunately, our technology is still at least 20 years away from the level of productivity needed to pay for a universal income.
The next two decades are going to be very challenging, and probably very frightening, in the USA.
Porn, alcohol, and video games is quite enticing to a surprisingly high percentage of people.
Better get an opinion from Billy Joel first.
“... 14% of the U.S. working-age population had low literacy skills, 23% had low numeracy skills and 62% had low digital problem-solving skills.”
It must not really be a problem if SloJo wants to let millions more into the US that are nearly 100% in all three categories mentioned in that report.
They are being herded here as consumers/bipedal livestock, not real workers.
“McKinsey finds that while the total number of jobs will increase, “nearly all net job growth over the next decade is projected to be in high-wage occupations” — which is not good news for workers with low job skills.”
That was the whole idea behind the STEM push for females and preferred minorities; left to their own devices, if they selected non-STEM fields (outside of gubmint jobs) they’d be putting themselves into a WORKING underclass voluntarily.
Cool story!
People have been breeding the perfect friend out of wolves for 10,000 years. Imagine what some purposeful personality breeding would do for mankind.
And STEM became STEAM, (the ‘A’ being for Arts) which just makes the whole thing pointless.
Right - I posted about that a long time ago! At the time I pointed out that this was a was to spread some of the money around to the “non-STEM population”; Any funding for such ventures (from big business, wealthy individuals, TUITION) could be channeled towards aspiring rappers, radical “poets”, and desecrators of religious objects...completely defeating the purpose of funding the for the workers of the future.
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