[cherry]

great....more jobs done away with.....more people with nothing to do...nothing but collect welfare/unemployment/disability.....

[jimpick]

What happens to the illegals when they become legal and these robots take over? How will these low skill workers make a living when they are no olonger needed?

[JRandomFreeper]

What? You work at a buggy whip factory? All those people lost their jobs, too.

/johnny

[agere_contra]

If your job can be done better/faster/cheaper by someone else or something else then it isn't a job.

It's welfare.

[Opinionated Blowhard]

Shades of Kurt Vonnegut’s Player Piano. Its why we need a dynamic economy that can take the guys who made buggy whips and move them into higher tech jobs. Its chaotic and disruptive but necessay for wealth generation. And Socialism stops it and we end up with what you said. A small number of makers supporting a huge number of takers.

[BfloGuy]

great....more jobs done away with.....more people with nothing to do...nothing but collect welfare/unemployment/disability....

The problem is not the mechanization, it's the easy availability of those last three.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

"Stoop Labor" is something very few people will do. There isn't much that's harder on your body. I drove through the Pajaro Valley on the way to Carmel last weekend and am always amazed and saddened watching people perform these jobs. It makes you very appreciative of the food on your table. Using machines to perform these literally backbreaking jobs is long overdue.