Posted on 03/09/2016 1:07:14 PM PST by C19fan
The so-called gig economy will cease to exist in 20 years, according to a new report from venture-backed start-up Thumbtack, an online marketplace that helps skilled workers find customers.
The study predicts that logistics companies — from start-ups like Uber to tech giants like Amazon — will soon replace drivers and delivery workers with autonomous vehicles and drones. Highly skilled workers, such as lawyers and accountants — no longer guaranteed jobs at big firms — will be the new gig economy workers, the study finds.
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Just keep thinking of the movie Wall-E where every human is a fat tub or lard.
I think it’s still a long way off. As good as computers, GPS, and robots are these days they will always malfunction in the most spectacular ways.
Not too bad when they are flipping burgers or welding cars but when they are delivering your expensive purchases or driving your kids... The tech needs to solidify a whole bunch before it goes mainstream. I think it can but I think that will happen years from now.
Why do you think they’re obsessed with OUR birth control?
When they talk about a planet with 500M humans maximum (some talk about way less than that), I’m astounded that everyone seems to think it’s some other people somewhere else that the elites are planning on eliminating.
These will be our replacements.
Why do you think the elites are simultaneously obsessed with population control, AI and robotics?
I don’t think anybody really does. But I do think people are starting to realize that this is more than a new iteration of the ‘horseless carriage’ argument. Particularly when the trajectory of technology isn’t just improved productivity but the outright replacement of the human person in the workplace.
So the question becomes: new economies or societal change?
Gig economy? Like rap concerts?
Robots have already been wrecking the workforce for years. Look at the auto plants for example. The unions’ biggest fears are the addition of robots that don’t pay dues.
To be fair, I don’t think anybody has a crystal ball. It will go one of two directions:
the capitalist approach where we come up with new jobs to replace the ones the robots will take over, which is to say we will progress and achieve some long cherished goals.
The Elysium fields model, where people just have unlimited free time (hey, what could go wrong?!)
Personally my hope is for the former, with some of the more enterprising of the “not traditionally employed” forging a new path forward not involving the “gig economy” which at best is a dead end.
Potential Sanders Secy of Labor?
I’m in the auto (parts) industry. My two closest co-workers are robots. They do the jobs of 4-6 humans.
Not all jobs will go away, and if wages are permitted to fall to fit demand, overall employment will go up.
The Great Shift Toward Automation and the Future of Employment
http://hubpages.com/business/The-Great-Shift-and-the-Future-of-Employment
That's true. But at least Trump wants to bring jobs back to the US.
“If wages are permitted to fall to fit demand”
The politicians will love campaigning on that one... :-)
Not worried. I’d say we aren’t there yet with robots driving and won’t be for quite some time, heh.
There is no future for manufacturing or industry jobs. Anywhere.
Trump is like Obama, a 20th century candidate.
“Robots have already been wrecking the workforce for years. Look at the auto plants for example. The unions’ biggest fears are the addition of robots that don’t pay dues.”
Sooner the better.
“The more jobs we have, the less we will be hurt by this.”
Actually, kind of the opposite.
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