Doctor President Trump is here to help you out with that, Stevie lad!:
No self respecting robot would want my job.
Well, of course, it’s ideas and not capital that comes first. Captial is a creation of man and his ideas.the very concept of capital is not existent without man. Same with resources, which are endless.
So I am to believe that there are less than 3.2 million illegal aliens working on farms in America?
Loser author is relying on the past to predict the future.
The Luddite will never go extinct, apparently.
Of course somebody has to build, install, and maintain the “robots”. No big deal. And here the cops can be used to fight crime and corrupt politicians.
Yet, people are working more than ever.
There was a time when there was no such thing as spreadsheets. You would think that such an invention would require only a few spreadsheets.
Putting together a summary of say, selected product costs and sales over time might have taken a clerk a month using adding machines and green ledger forms.
Now it would take a day at most.
But there are as many clerks as ever — they are just being asked to create 30X more spreadsheets from those same data.
A word to the author:
Writing checks that cant be cashed has been a staple of the outgoing admin..
They keep trying to drive home the point that, due to automation, those jobs aren’t coming back.
And yet those jobs in those automated plants exist somewhere. They exist everywhere companies have moved those automated and semi-automated processes. Even automated machines have operators, and maintenance men, and engineers and administrators overseeing the operation.
And whats more, where the manufacturing takes place you have further development of the technology, and skills being learned and passed on. That used to happen here, but increasingly it happens elsewhere... it happens where manufacturing happens.
Automated processes require a lot of people, believe it or not. But a robot does reduce the importance of wages. So if a robot makes as much money per hour in Bangla Desh as he does in Des Moines, why relocate? Now you are back to taxes, regulations, unions, red tape, environmental restrictions. Would you build a factory in California? Would they let you? Would you want to?
So Trump talks about tariffs, but if you listen he is talking about attacking the reasons companies want to leave. Taxes and red tape. Because China and Bangla Desh and Mexico bring their own problems. You wouldn’t try to operate there if you didn’t have to.
No robot can mine coal. As for this premise, I got a fine trade in in the robotics service industry. I happen to get paid quite a bit more than a burger flipper too.
I would not trade my job for a job directing traffic in a rain storm. Unless of course you wanted to pay me quite a bit more. I am human and resilient that way. I dare you to teach a traffic light to flip burgers.
Such is the idiocy of the “robots are gonna replace men” argument.
Yes of course ; anyone knows a good economy is a bad thing. PLEEEEEEZE who tells these morons they are important?
Yes of course ; anyone knows a good economy is a bad thing. PLEEEEEEZE who tells these morons they are important?
Yes of course ; anyone knows a good economy is a bad thing. PLEEEEEEZE who tells these morons they are important?
At a minimum, Trump should create more jobs for citizens and fewer (or none) for illegals.
So wouldn't it be fair to assess the people being replaced as to their ability to be retrained for one or both of those jobs now being created?
It's true that unskilled are the hardest hit by automation. What is also true is that the educators in this country have played a major role in the increasing numbers of unskilled workers this country is generating. In addition politicians are also increasing those numbers by allowing too many unskilled people in. Who in turn create more children that historically are more likely to become unskilled adults.
First, the process of manufacturing job creation these days often results in the addition of service jobs that are in fact attached to the manufacturing economy even though classified as service jobs. For example, a computer data analyst in a geotechnical firm that processes ground surveys and rock samples for oil drillers need never get near an oil rig. Yet, even though in a service job, he can also be considered part of the oil industry.
Strictly speaking, today's greater efficiency in oil exploration and drilling due to data collection and analysis means that fewer rigs and field workers are needed to find and get oil out of the ground. Yet at least some of the "jobs lost" in that respect were not lost at all but simply booked to the service sector in spite an essential part of the system of support services for the oil industry.
Second, the demand for labor is diminished by increases in its price and decreases in its utility. Unions have spent decades forcing through increases in wages and benefits in manufacturing and more complicated and restrictive work rules. Inevitably, this has led to increased costs and decreased employment in manufacturing. Notably, manufacturing employment has grown in right to work states, which also tend to be have lower tax and regulatory burdens.
The bottom line is that broader measures of manufacturing output related to total employment should also be evaluated. Moreover, domestic policies as to taxes, labor pay and conditions of employment and general business taxes and regulations can have dramatic effects on manufacturing employment.
Doctor President Trump is here to help you out with that, Stevie lad!:
(What is happening to Townhall?)