The Rich and Their Robots Are About to Make Half the World's Jobs Disappear

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I went to Chiles and you can now pay with a kiosk machine thats At the table. I asked the waitresss, so we can pay here? :gladbron: and she says

*yea they're trying to get rid of us* I was like :ohhh:

Once they figure out how to deliver food to tables without people, Game over.

Sadly friends, this also means they plan on killing a great deal of the population because what are all of these jobless friends going to do.


So instead of death to the infidels it will be death to the jobless. I like it, kinda has a ring to it:ehh:
 

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So instead of death to the infidels it will be death to the jobless. I like it, kinda has a ring to it:ehh:
What it really does is give an excuse to bring back slavery. Jobless individuals will be working for horrible wages in horrible conditions building the most rudimentary of things.

Its so demonic, friends. :sitdown:
 

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This is why I tell people to go into business (finance, accounting, even marketing). It's future proof whereas there are a lot of engineers who will get a bad wakeup call soon.
 

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do we have switchboard operators anymore? jobs evolve....this is overblown.
when switchboard operators lost their jobs, there was a massive increase in new and better jobs. today the inverse is happening. you cant blindly infer links to things without actually looking at what is really happening. if some new technological shift does not increase a need for mass labor within the next couple decades, we are going to have to radically re-think our society again.
 

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This is why I tell people to go into business (finance, accounting, even marketing). It's future proof whereas there are a lot of engineers who will get a bad wakeup call soon.
the article mentions accountants specifically as a field with a limited lifespan thanks to automation...

you have to think, what can be automated?

then think, how many people will be needed to market stuff when there is stagnation in the number of people who can afford to buy?

few things are future proof, breh. owning capital or being a genius with novel talent are the only two future proof things i can think of
 

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the article mentions accountants specifically as a field with a limited lifespan thanks to automation...

you have to think, what can be automated?

then think, how many people will be needed to market stuff when there is stagnation in the number of people who can afford to buy?

few things are future proof, breh. owning capital or being a genius with novel talent are the only two future proof things i can think of

I've seen this argument before, it doesn't really hold weight. A machine can automate a balance sheet but programming isn't capable of making a robot that can do full finance/corporate/etc accounting.
 

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I went to Chiles and you can now pay with a kiosk machine thats At the table. I asked the waitresss, so we can pay here? :gladbron: and she says

*yea they're trying to get rid of us* I was like :ohhh:

Once they figure out how to deliver food to tables without people, Game over.

Sadly friends, this also means they plan on killing a great deal of the population because what are all of these jobless friends going to do.
wat?:mjlol:
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I've seen this argument before, it doesn't really hold weight. A machine can automate a balance sheet but programming isn't capable of making a robot that can do full finance/corporate/etc accounting.
how much of the industry is absolutely not open to ever increasingly advanced automation?

most industries seem to be supported by a wide base of less advanced work that is usually vulnerable to offshoring or automation, with smaller levels above that requiring more skill. typically the lower levels would be entry level positions.
 

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As an elctrical engineer who has designed things like this and written code and have a few products in stores I can not say I didnt see it coming. Automatuion is what i've been specializing in since 96 when I started missing around with trynna automate my house ...

Jobs evolve... We'll still need people to repair the robots, set them up and make sure they work ...
 

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how much of the industry is absolutely not open to ever increasingly advanced automation?

most industries seem to be supported by a wide base of less advanced work that is usually vulnerable to offshoring or automation, with smaller levels above that require more skill. typically the lower levels would be entry level positions.

this i key... I currently am an electrical engineer for a major city and automation is encouraged up to a certain point ... they dont want this to advanced ... I can make things run themselves and phone home when they break but the unions wont allow that. Certain jobs must remain and will..

It goes 2fold though ... if things are to advanced the operators/repairers/etc will need a college degree to use it and be trained.
 

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this i key... I currently am an electrical engineer for a major city and automation is encouraged up to a certain point ... they dont want this to advanced ... I can make things run themselves and phone home when they break but the unions wont allow that. Certain jobs must remain and will..

It goes 2fold though ... if things are to advanced the operators/repairers/etc will need a college degree to use it and be trained.
and we are in a time of extremely low union membership, not to mention the private sector is increasingly trying to make its workforce freelance or temporary, further reducing the likelihood that union membership can grow
 

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when switchboard operators lost their jobs, there was a massive increase in new and better jobs. today the inverse is happening. you cant blindly infer links to things without actually looking at what is really happening. if some new technological shift does not increase a need for mass labor within the next couple decades, we are going to have to radically re-think our society again.
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