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Will A Robot Take Your Job?
Investor's Business Daily ^ | 6/9/2016 | Terry Jones

Posted on 06/09/2016 5:10:26 AM PDT by IBD editorial writer

A new estimate says that robots will perform more than half of all jobs by 2045, leaving the frightening prospect that millions of once solidly middle-class people will be left idle and jobless. [snip] So: Is this it for human labor?

Hardly. Since the Industrial Revolution, jeremiads about the end of human labor have been sounded with great frequency. They’ve never come true.

(Excerpt) Read more at investors.com ...


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1 posted on 06/09/2016 5:10:26 AM PDT by IBD editorial writer
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The difference prior was that no machine could do jobs without the aid of a human being. Now entire factories can be set up and only a few humans needed, primarily to ensure the care of machines.

That’s what is different now.


2 posted on 06/09/2016 5:13:06 AM PDT by Jonty30 (What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death cults)
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Will A Robot Take Your Job?

Doubtful. I repair robots.


3 posted on 06/09/2016 5:13:09 AM PDT by Yo-Yo (Is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
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We need laws to limit automation.


4 posted on 06/09/2016 5:15:45 AM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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...We need laws to limit automation....

Liberals will pass laws and make regulations. Not a problem


5 posted on 06/09/2016 5:18:53 AM PDT by Sasparilla (Hillary for Prison 2016)
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Bring on the robots, kick out the illegals.


6 posted on 06/09/2016 5:20:44 AM PDT by Read Write Repeat
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In the year 5555
Your arms are hanging limp at your side
You legs got nothing to do
Some machine’s doing that for you


7 posted on 06/09/2016 5:20:54 AM PDT by P.O.E. (Pray for America)
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I agree.

A couple of million jobs could be gone tomorrow if the powers that be wanted it that way. Factor in artificial intelligence and the breakneck speed by which robots are being improved right now.

The real danger lies in what do we do with all these Common Core educated, mind numbed, indoctrinated 20-somethings, who can’t think critically to save their life?

I think this is the primary reason Agenda 21 plans on ‘eliminating’ half the world population. There will simply be nothing for them to do except consume food, water, and oxygen. And breed.


8 posted on 06/09/2016 5:26:45 AM PDT by MichaelCorleone (Jesus Christ is not a religion. He's the Truth.)
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How about a tariff on robots to protect jobs?


9 posted on 06/09/2016 5:29:54 AM PDT by DugwayDuke ("A man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest")
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...And once robots become semi sentient, liberals will need to pass laws to give mecha voting rights. Of course, none of that will come to pass unless they create robot consumers who will buy the products and services provided by that very same mecha, because the skins surely won’t be able to.


10 posted on 06/09/2016 5:31:34 AM PDT by LittleBillyInfidel (This tagline has been formatted to fit the screen. Some content has been edited.)
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I wish a robot would take Barry’s job and be programmed by Donald Trump in order to get us through this difficult days of the cretin’s last gasp.

If we’d put a robot online some time ago we’d have avoided the perverted edicts that this liar has barfed forth: like LGBT Month!


11 posted on 06/09/2016 5:36:07 AM PDT by HomerBohn (Liberals and Slinkys: Good for nothing but make you smile as you shove them down the stairs.)
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12 posted on 06/09/2016 5:36:46 AM PDT by Opinionated Blowhard ("When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.")
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if you are a long haul truck driver, you have 5 more years of work....better plan now


13 posted on 06/09/2016 5:40:52 AM PDT by B212
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I think everybody’s got about 5 years.


14 posted on 06/09/2016 5:49:43 AM PDT by Jonty30 (What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death cults)
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We have had autopilots on planes that can fly better than the human pilot for the last 30 years

We still have pilots

15 posted on 06/09/2016 6:09:34 AM PDT by rdcbn ("If what has happened here is not treason, it is its first cousin." Zell Milleraereh)
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Will A Robot Take Your Job?

I wish.

16 posted on 06/09/2016 6:10:25 AM PDT by DungeonMaster (Rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft.)
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I am so screwed.


17 posted on 06/09/2016 6:12:55 AM PDT by Lazamataz (Chuck Norris finally met his match in Donald Trump.)
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They are so screwed.


18 posted on 06/09/2016 6:15:24 AM PDT by Lazamataz (Chuck Norris finally met his match in Donald Trump.)
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To: Jonty30

Everybody is so screwed.


19 posted on 06/09/2016 6:16:18 AM PDT by Lazamataz (Chuck Norris finally met his match in Donald Trump.)
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To: Opinionated Blowhard

You are so screwed.


20 posted on 06/09/2016 6:16:49 AM PDT by Lazamataz (Chuck Norris finally met his match in Donald Trump.)
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