So if you make less than 40 dollars an hour, there's a good chance your job is in jeopardy.
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Will those industries produce enough well paying jobs to replace the ones rendered obsolete by automation?
Field Marshall Bradley
Veteran
Like what?
That 20 to 40 dollar salary range accounts for a large chunk of the population..... You axe 30% of those jobs over a ten year span and you'll kick the economy dead in its nuts......
Like what?
Upgrading infrastructure with updated technology, maintenance of said technology etc etc
Admittedly if there isn't either a basic income structure or some level of gradual integration of the workers into update technology, the elites are in for one helluva rude awakening.
And people got on them McDonalds workers for 'asking too much' when they went on strike to get $15. These rich folks were going to replace them regardless, and they will replace as many other professions with robots as soon as they can. Now it becomes a lot more real when peoples' own profession and not those fast food workers profession is at risk.
Reginald Noble
Banned
Almost at $45 and trying to break $100k in the next move 
Reginald Noble
Banned
Thats why you need to overthrow them democratically or otherwise
"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." - Thomas Jefferson
That time will come in our life time if anybody but Sanders is elected into office. We are in a very critical economic, technological and political point in American History. By the the next presidency is over automation will already begin to take shape as the primary means of production. If the state and elites chose to ignore the workers who have been their foundation, it won't be a pretty sight in the US
Bernie needs to start spreading this message. "If you don't vote for me, the country will burn." 
dennis roadman
nuclear war in my bag
jesus 
I sorta agree, but not quite
What about the robots thesmselves? Whose gonna build them? Whose gonna learn how to fix them? Whose gonna test the newly written code for the robots?
That's where new job opportunities come into play. Very pessimistic title
What about the robots thesmselves? Whose gonna build them? Whose gonna learn how to fix them? Whose gonna test the newly written code for the robots?
That's where new job opportunities come into play. Very pessimistic title
Take taxes for example. Turbo tax is idiot proof. You can go online and do it yourself for free under certain circumstances yet people still go to places like H&R block and pay hundreds of dollars. Humans are conditioned for routines.
On the flip side a lot of companies have grown use to outsourcing labor to staffing agencies to cut costs. This has nothing to do with technology. Human labor has become compartmentalized. At my job 30 percent of hour hourly employees are with part time or on call permanently. I work at a job with people have been there for over 3 years but are still get paid by a staffing agency. Again, no technology needed.
Blackout
just your usual nerdy brotha
Hopefully we can get to the point where automation and easy to replicate materials make working become obsolete. This route will make us go toward socialism more so than anything via natural proggression.
Worst case scenario though is higher ups offing a lot of people to keep the current capitalism system in tact.
Worst case scenario though is higher ups offing a lot of people to keep the current capitalism system in tact.
Red Shield
Global Domination
it ain't the elites that are in for a helluva rude awakening
You don't get the cycle of revolution don't you
88m3
Fast Money & Foreign Objects
Mercedes Boots Robots From the Production Line
Elisabeth Behrmann ElisBehrmann
Christoph Rauwald Rauwald
February 25, 2016 — 12:00 AM ESTUpdated on February 25, 2016 — 11:07 AM EST
A Mercedes-Benz S-Class on the assembly line at the company’s factory in Sindelfingen, Germany.
Photographer: Krisztian Bocsi/Bloomberg
Mercedes-Benz offers the S-Class sedan with a growing array of options such as carbon-fiber trim, heated and cooled cupholders and four types of caps for the tire valves, and the carmaker’s robots can’t keep up.
With customization key to wooing modern consumers, the flexibility and dexterity of human workers is reclaiming space on Mercedes’s assembly lines. That bucks a trend that has given machines the upper hand over manpower since legendary U.S. railroad worker John Henry died trying to best a motorized hammer more than a century ago.
Markus Schaefer
Photographer: Krisztian Bocsi/Bloomberg
“Robots can’t deal with the degree of individualization and the many variants that we have today,” Markus Schaefer, the German automaker’s head of production, said at its factory in Sindelfingen, the anchor of the Daimler AG unit’s global manufacturing network. “We’re saving money and safeguarding our future by employing more people.”
Mercedes’s Sindelfingen plant, the manufacturer’s biggest, is an unlikely place to question the benefits of automation. While the factory makes elite models such as the GT sports car and the ultra-luxury S-Class Maybach sedan, the 101-year-old site is far from a boutique assembly shop. The complex processes 1,500 tons of steel a day and churns out more than 400,000 vehicles a year.
That makes efficient, streamlined production as important at Sindelfingen as at any other automotive plant. But the age of individualization is forcing changes to the manufacturing methods that made cars and other goods accessible to the masses. The impetus for the shift is versatility. While robots are good at reliably and repeatedly performing defined tasks, they’re not good at adapting. That’s increasingly in demand amid a broader offering of models, each with more and more features.
Model Choices
“The variety is too much to take on for the machines,” said Schaefer, who’s pushing to reduce the hours needed to produce a car to 30 from 61 in 2005. “They can’t work with all the different options and keep pace with changes.”
With manufacturing focused around a skilled crew of workers, Mercedes can shift a production line in a weekend instead of the weeks needed in the past to reprogram robots and shift assembly patterns, Schaefer said. During that downtime, production would be at a standstill.
‘Robot Farming’
The revamped Mercedes E-Class, which goes on sale in March, is an example of cutting back on machines. To align the car’s head-up display, which projects speed and navigation instructions onto the windshield, the carmaker will replace two permanently installed robots with either one movable, lightweight machine or a worker.
While robots won’t completely disappear, they’ll increasingly be smaller and more flexible and operate in conjunction with human workers rather than set off behind safety fences. Mercedes calls equipping workers with an array of little machines “robot farming.” About 1.3 million industrial robots will go into operation in the next two years, the International Federation of Robotics said in a study published Thursday.
The world’s second-largest maker of luxury cars isn’t doing this in isolation. BMW AG and Volkswagen AG’s Audi are also testing lightweight, sensor-equipped robots safe enough to work alongside people. The edge they’re seeking is to be better and faster than rivals as the pace of change affecting the auto industry quickens. Cars are increasingly morphing into smartphones on wheels, and manufacturers are under pressure to upgrade their models more frequently than the traditional seven-year cycle.
More Than Black
Automakers also need to cater to consumers demanding to be different. For Mercedes, that means adding 30 models by the end of the decade, including 10 all-new styles, and offering custom options such as bamboo trim, interior fragrances and illuminating the Mercedes star. That’s a stark contrast to the days when mass-production pioneer Henry Ford quipped that customers could have any color they wanted as long as it was black.
“We’re moving away from trying to maximize automation with people taking a bigger part in industrial processes again,” said Schaefer. “We need to be flexible.”
Mercedes Boots Robots From the Production Line
Elisabeth Behrmann ElisBehrmann
Christoph Rauwald Rauwald
February 25, 2016 — 12:00 AM ESTUpdated on February 25, 2016 — 11:07 AM EST
A Mercedes-Benz S-Class on the assembly line at the company’s factory in Sindelfingen, Germany.
Photographer: Krisztian Bocsi/Bloomberg
- Mercedes races Audi, BMW to gain edge in changing car market
- More assembly workers safeguard future, production chief says
Mercedes-Benz offers the S-Class sedan with a growing array of options such as carbon-fiber trim, heated and cooled cupholders and four types of caps for the tire valves, and the carmaker’s robots can’t keep up.
With customization key to wooing modern consumers, the flexibility and dexterity of human workers is reclaiming space on Mercedes’s assembly lines. That bucks a trend that has given machines the upper hand over manpower since legendary U.S. railroad worker John Henry died trying to best a motorized hammer more than a century ago.
Markus Schaefer
Photographer: Krisztian Bocsi/Bloomberg
“Robots can’t deal with the degree of individualization and the many variants that we have today,” Markus Schaefer, the German automaker’s head of production, said at its factory in Sindelfingen, the anchor of the Daimler AG unit’s global manufacturing network. “We’re saving money and safeguarding our future by employing more people.”
Mercedes’s Sindelfingen plant, the manufacturer’s biggest, is an unlikely place to question the benefits of automation. While the factory makes elite models such as the GT sports car and the ultra-luxury S-Class Maybach sedan, the 101-year-old site is far from a boutique assembly shop. The complex processes 1,500 tons of steel a day and churns out more than 400,000 vehicles a year.
That makes efficient, streamlined production as important at Sindelfingen as at any other automotive plant. But the age of individualization is forcing changes to the manufacturing methods that made cars and other goods accessible to the masses. The impetus for the shift is versatility. While robots are good at reliably and repeatedly performing defined tasks, they’re not good at adapting. That’s increasingly in demand amid a broader offering of models, each with more and more features.
Model Choices
“The variety is too much to take on for the machines,” said Schaefer, who’s pushing to reduce the hours needed to produce a car to 30 from 61 in 2005. “They can’t work with all the different options and keep pace with changes.”
With manufacturing focused around a skilled crew of workers, Mercedes can shift a production line in a weekend instead of the weeks needed in the past to reprogram robots and shift assembly patterns, Schaefer said. During that downtime, production would be at a standstill.
‘Robot Farming’
The revamped Mercedes E-Class, which goes on sale in March, is an example of cutting back on machines. To align the car’s head-up display, which projects speed and navigation instructions onto the windshield, the carmaker will replace two permanently installed robots with either one movable, lightweight machine or a worker.
While robots won’t completely disappear, they’ll increasingly be smaller and more flexible and operate in conjunction with human workers rather than set off behind safety fences. Mercedes calls equipping workers with an array of little machines “robot farming.” About 1.3 million industrial robots will go into operation in the next two years, the International Federation of Robotics said in a study published Thursday.
The world’s second-largest maker of luxury cars isn’t doing this in isolation. BMW AG and Volkswagen AG’s Audi are also testing lightweight, sensor-equipped robots safe enough to work alongside people. The edge they’re seeking is to be better and faster than rivals as the pace of change affecting the auto industry quickens. Cars are increasingly morphing into smartphones on wheels, and manufacturers are under pressure to upgrade their models more frequently than the traditional seven-year cycle.
More Than Black
Automakers also need to cater to consumers demanding to be different. For Mercedes, that means adding 30 models by the end of the decade, including 10 all-new styles, and offering custom options such as bamboo trim, interior fragrances and illuminating the Mercedes star. That’s a stark contrast to the days when mass-production pioneer Henry Ford quipped that customers could have any color they wanted as long as it was black.
“We’re moving away from trying to maximize automation with people taking a bigger part in industrial processes again,” said Schaefer. “We need to be flexible.”
Mercedes Boots Robots From the Production Line