[nomad]

You get educated and learn to either build, install, maintain and repair, or setup these robots.There's also the managerial/logistical side of that factory.

The point is time and technology moves on,we need to move with it or get left behind. I`m not going to pay thru the nose for either of the lazy idiots to sit at home mooching or needlessly assemble widgets on some assembly loser line.

I don`t know`em and I don`t owe`em!

[HiTech RedNeck]

And somebody has to carry around the stuff that feeds these robots and that the robots make. Ergo, truck driving isn’t going to go away anytime soon.

[moonshot925]

I think automation is a very good thing for us.

For example:

In 1950 the US steel industry employed 600,000 people and produced 87.9 million metric tons of steel.

In 2011 the US steel industry employed 85,000 people and produced 86.2 million metric tons of steel.

So we are able to produce the same output but with 7 times less workers.