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Have you all sensed the looming vicious competition, not from the chinese, the indian, nor the mexician unskilled workers, but from robotic workers who will penetrate many areas of the job market, not just the low-skilled end?
If you haven't, you get to read and educate yourself and your loved ones to be informed and prepared to avoid waking up 10 years later to a shocking change of reality.
If you think 10% unemployment rate is enough to destabilize and trigger social commotions, wait until those emotionless artificial workers arrive in the coming decade or so. 20%-30% of unemployment will become the new norm. How will NYC deal with a large chunk of displaced workers, many of whom make up the current middle-class population? Can you imagine more homelessness on every street in Manhattan in the foreseeable future?
The displaced workers will find other jobs and move on
Robotic workers are being created knowing which jobs to take over, human workers yet have to figure out what "other jobs" will be left or emerge for them to work and make a living. If I were a future employer, robotic workers will have some significant advantages over human peers including fewer expenses and problems such as no benefits, around the clock, no talk back, no EEO or other legal issues.
Robotic workers are being created knowing which jobs to take over, human workers yet have to figure out what "other jobs" will be left or emerge for them to work and make a living. If I were a future employer, robotic workers will have some significant advantages over human peers including fewer expenses and problems such as no benefits, around the clock, no talk back, no EEO or other legal issues.
This is not new. Tractors and other equipment reduced the need for farm laborers.
But you can't rely on machines alone. Los Angeles has no token booth clerks. You just buy a wireless card and move it on front of the scanner to board you train. Of course they have security randomly check people to see if they actually have their wireless cards on both the trains and as they leave the station. So while technology eliminated the need for token both clerks, it created the need to have people actually check on whether passengers were paying the fares or else the system would lose way too much money.
In certain jobs the salesperson is responsible for bringing in revenues. Bartenders are sexy and sell themselves to get people to buy drinks. Real estate agents are personable and knowledgeable and use this to sell real estate. Machines can't do this.
This is not new. Tractors and other equipment reduced the need for farm laborers.
But you can't rely on machines alone. Los Angeles has no token booth clerks. You just buy a wireless card and move it on front of the scanner to board you train. Of course they have security randomly check people to see if they actually have their wireless cards on both the trains and as they leave the station. So while technology eliminated the need for token both clerks, it created the need to have people actually check on whether passengers were paying the fares or else the system would lose way too much money.
In certain jobs the salesperson is responsible for bringing in revenues. Bartenders are sexy and sell themselves to get people to buy drinks. Real estate agents are personable and knowledgeable and use this to sell real estate. Machines can't do this.
Some of you read too much sci-fi.
I agree. Certain positions require the human factor of making decisions, providing empathy and going the extra mile. Machines have displaced some people but cannot do the latter. If they were to become that lifelike, We are ALL in trouble!
which means lots of new jobs created in other areas . i just retired after 40 years of being a motor control specialist and doing quite a bit of factory automation work .
started life as an hvac mechanic but self taught myself everything else and shifted with the times in to learning how to control the speeds and protection of all kinds of industrial and hvac motors and pumps ..
if you want to keep eating you have to keep tabs on where the food is .
The OP is probably naïve enough to believe the claim that a completely "self-driving car" will be available to the public within "a few more years"; technology simply doesn't advance that quickly.
And unfortunately for the introverts among us, the marketplace is still driven, to a great degree, by the typical suburban "trailing spouse". who acts as the family purchasing agent, and can often be conned into purchasing a particular product -- if there is a sufficient amount of useless gush, salesmanship, and personal attention packaged with it.
The jobs will still be there, with more regimentation and micromanagement involved in the process.
some of you are confused about machines and artificial humans.
a machine does not have a brain
an artificial human has a fully optimized brain for specific tasks that can easily outperform their human peers. machines can replace physical jobs; artificial humans can replace intelligent jobs by design. tech breakthroughs in the past decade now allows realizations of many of the sci-fied threats facing humans soon. I don't think politicians are aware of the full adverse impact of artificial humans on future societies.
I am not claiming that ah will ever fully penetrate every job sector; instead, they will take out a lot of job opportunities to drive up unemploments across many sectors. is the society prepared to handle unemployed citizens?
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