Except for....
Posted on 02/11/2013 9:38:13 AM PST by MichCapCon
There is an “Obama in the ointment” of the computer argument, however.
If computers were supposed to start first at eliminating menial jobs that require little IQ, why do we still have a congress?
Not to speak of the Obamadork......
Except for....
Just another push to make our economy based on service type jobs. All manufacturing and engineering will be done overseas. I guess the logical step would be for humans to own robots and send them to work, but then libtards will scream we are violating their robot rights and the wage they earn is theirs and since they are all workers they must be democrats, right? So all money got to union dues.
Just another push to make our economy based on service type jobs. All manufacturing and engineering will be done overseas. I guess the logical step would be for humans to own robots and send them to work, but then libtards will scream we are violating their robot rights and the wage they earn is theirs and since they are all workers they must be democrats, right? So all money got to union dues.
What’s that I read somewhere about “Idle hands”.
The luddites have always had the same argument and they have always been wrong.
When kids at home are using 3-d printers to make their own toys will Mattel be suing?
Bots are good and even great for some things but they’re not going to replace SMART humans anytime soon.
There, fixed it....But what about the rest of the people who will just be sitting around idle?
Past performance is no guarantee of future results.
In other words, just because the Luddites were wrong before...
For example, look at the millions on government paychecks.
In what business would they be otherwise employed?
We still produce about $2 trillion of manufactured goods each year in the US. We just don’t use as many workers to do so, compared with the past.
Having worked with robots I can confidently say that we’re in no danger of being replaced. Its an imperfect world and robots operate within a perfect set of parameters for them.
On the other hand there are some jobs which are extremely dangerous where we can only hope they’ll replace us.
And you don’t have to worry about robots failing drug tests.
I wouldn't trust them to paint my fence.
Robots don’t play grabass or repeat shop gossip.
I worked for over 20 years in the field of industrial automation, mainly in the automotive industry in Michigan. At first the push was to automate every process you possibly could. But, by the mid 90’s, with NAFTA, and normalized trade with china, companies started shifting from highly automated processes, back to manual labor processes. The reasoning was clear, for a given investment in capital equipment, and labor and shipping costs, nobody could compete against china and asia. So the trend by the late 90’s was at first building manual manufacturing equipment to china, soon followed by advanced manufacturing machinery (think CNC and precision machining equipment). Now, a dozen or so years later, the chinese have the technology to out do us with our own technology. And worse, they manufacture most of the precision CNC and advanced technology components we use now. The “cheap consumer products” notion doesn’t apply anymore, and hasn’t for some time. The chinese now have the upper hand, they can send us back to the stone ages with one embargo if they wanted to. The US basically sold their industrial infrastructure to the communists, and could pretty much could care less, as long as they got theirs.
So we should stop technology all in the name of saving jobs??
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