Posted on 12/06/2013 8:54:25 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Robots - You can’t get any more ‘minimum wage’ than that.............
We’re gonna need robots to fix the robots too.
Because policymakers always do such a bang up job in responding to the effects of creative destruction.
Of the 203,000 jobs created last month,
41% or 83,200 jobs are in government!
Every government job is overhead on private sector.
More people in government to suck blood of hard working
people who must be productive enough to make a profit
just to stay in business.
The enemy is not robots, it is the bureaucracy and
regulations from the government.
In Boise, ID on the corner of Overland and Five Mile, there is now a motorized sign waving device that mimics a person waving around a sandwich board sign. Robots are even replacing the guys that wear foam pizza costumes and stand outside on street corners. Also, there are now automatic sky writing devices which make perfect messages. All you need is a drone to fly it. I hope the blue skies don’t get littered with ads...
I don’t think it’s a problem right now - but this has always raised a question in my mind about the future.
Given that technology always advances and it does more and more of those chores and duties for us - at some point in the future, it’s conceivable that robots could do every bit of “work” required in society. Perhaps it wouldn’t be 100% of the total “work” available, but the overwhelming majority - anyway (with a very few people to “manage” certain situations).
I wonder WHAT EXACTLY is the majority of human beings on this planet going to do in order to “earn income”.
Is this going to completely change the entire economic structure to be something completely unrecognizable to us today. It seems it would have to be something completely different - because the majority of people could not “work” to earn income - no matter what.
Oh, I can see this at McDee’s...
tap tap tap
two cheeseburgers, medium fries, diet coke, swipe, ding!
Wellllll.....
$15 / hour is about what I'd expect for a low-end tech to receive for keeping the fast food robots running. Not high-end work, mind you, but low-end, keep things on track and running, type-stuff. However - it would be more skilled than punching buttons with pictures on them, and asking "Would you like fries, too?"
It would be ridiculously easy to replace many of the behind-the-counter staff with automation. A couple of $15/hour people to keep the automation in line would be what I'd expect, and dump many - if not most - of the rest.
Dems and FF workers should be careful what they wish for.
It's too cold today for a human sign waver, anyway. (Currently 19 degrees, 8 with the wind chill)
Will the off shored manufactures use Cantonese speaking robots?
The service industry in our society has grown leaps and bounds. People don’t wipe their own butts, anymore. All while manufacturing jobs have decreased.
Automation, robots might reverse that a little. Where service jobs are replaced, manufacturing and engineering jobs will be created to design, assemble, program and maintain automated systems. They will require higher skills, they will be fewer but they will pay better.
Thank you Winston please report for reeducation. Peace is war.
Big deal. In the 60’s and 70’s the burger chain called King’s had phones at every booth.
You just picked your menu items and picked up the phone to give your order.
Somebody still has to bring it out to your table.
This is the exact some thing but updated for modern times.
When thye actually have androids coming around to your table, I’ll begin to worry.
I think that is only a matter of time. Further, I think the mechinization of fast food places is very near.
Tap, tap your order onto a screen then the computerized fry basket automatically drops into the fryer, and the cheesburger conveyer process starts and the drink machine automatically dispenses. Done. A total of 3 or so workers max at each fast food location.
“I wonder WHAT EXACTLY is the majority of human beings on this planet going to do in order to “earn income”.”
I dunno. If what I hear about “Agenda 21” is correct, most of them won’t be around to worry about.
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