Posted on 03/25/2017 9:32:01 AM PDT by davikkm
“How about they replace H-1B workers”
H1-B workers, as part of the larger IT workers, are writing software, which will eventually empower robots to replace workers. The only solution is to stop IT from automating things that are done by humans.
Well, unless the robots pay taxes and buy stuff, I’m gonna say the effect will be negative.
Not so fast FRiend....... technology has made all our lives better. Having routine chores automated where I give them little thought does not sound bad to me.
One downside may be on our health as we burn even fewer calories, but there is huge potential to improve our quality of life in many ways.
Someone has to build the robots and write the software.
Very true. There will be some new opportunities based on this.
But there will be workers who are displaced. I question what happens to minimum wage type workers, who are not educated and don’t have job skills to move into higher level employment.
This touches on a lot of other areas, such as having a well educated work force, making sure our people have the skills needed for the jobs of the future, and all that. I don’t know that we as a society have a good handle on that at present. When you see stories, such as yesterday’s story that half of Detroit’s residents are functionally illiterate, it makes you shudder at their prospects for the future.
Blah, blah, blah. The robots will fail soon enough even if it happened.
Robots will be programmed to invent, assemble and repair themselves as needed to complete the assigned project goals.
It is likely that Robots will speak to each other at rates of speed too fast for any human to follow just by ear. The speech of the robots may not have any sound, being digital in nature. There will be apps developed to make Robot dialog understandable to most people.
That’s right. In Europe, they are mulling charging employers payroll benefits taxes on robots to keep the welfare system going. So don’t worry, politicians always find a way!
Almost believable.
I predict a steady increase in cases of ‘robocide’ by humans.
Read the article. Except the “fitter” individuals are not reproducing. The movie “Idiotocracy” was right on.
My son likes to tinker a lot more than study, I am trying to encourage him to get into robotics repair. A fella could learn some basic electronic skills and using diagnostic programs for that sort of thing and make a truckload of money over the next years, even if at an assembly line operation those things are going to glitch now and then.
If eventually most jobs will be replaced by robots, the question next to ask is ... who will be the customers of the products and services they provide?
If the vast majority of people will be “out of work” they will have no money to purchase these products/services so then the robots will be “out of work” at some point in the future.
but I'm sure the teachers union will fight this tooth and nail....
actually, surprising that more students aren't doing online study at home....
we could get rid of busing...get rid of a lot of staff...no more violence to worry about in school,like rapes....
no more passing third world diseases...
Maybe, but “workers” have to think up and make those robots don’t they?
better worry about those higher wage workers who sit and shuffle papers...the insurance agents...the numerous govt workers...the teachers...engineers other than robotics...the list of jobs could go on and on...
Face it, many of the slots for which employers will pay a person to sit and do repetitive actions hour after hour SHOULD be replaced by robotic machinery. Still, somebody has to tend those machines, by feeding information into them, or repairing or reprogramming the mechanism, and to determine if the machines themselves are becoming obsolete.
Many jobs are by their very nature a condemnation to a life of ennui and boredom, resulting in the wage slave thinking up ways of making some kind of mischief, just to keep from falling asleep or being reduced to some kind of drooling idiot.
Still, many people are by nature or inclination, not very creative, and the question is, what is to be done to either motivate them, or at least put them somewhere they do not create willful mischief. The LAST thing we want to do is import more and more of them over time, as the present lack of enforcement of immigration laws seems to be doing. We used to bring in people who would work to be an ASSET to America, as we already had an abundance of those who failed to make even minimal effort to contribute.
It will happen more slowly than they are predicting. Robots have been around for quite awhile, they just look like robots.
They just don’t look like robots.
Correction to above post.
Idle hands are the Devil’s Workshop.
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The electric powered drill replaced the manual drill with a hand crank in the 1950s and the electronic calculator replaced the slide rule and productivity soared.
People used to work 80 hr, 7 day work weeks toeing at drudgery work conditions.
It used to be that items were so expensive that they were repaired or rebuilt, but with automation it's cheaper to just go buy new when an item wears out.
The new normal follow on can be seen in the smart phone world model where consumers buy a new phone every year or so , not because the phone is worn out, but instead replace their like new iPhone 6 with an iPhone 7 because its cost effective to replace with new technology.
In the future, expect to see shorter work weeks, more time to pursue interests and lower cost consumer goods.
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