Meh, stupid people are blind to innovation and humanity evolving into higher tech levels all the time faster then ever.
90% population used to be farmers... i don't see problem when they lost jobs.
Automatization made people lose jobs in assembly lines.
Robotics and informatics will cause people to lose even more boring and dangerous jobs that only cause health hazard.
Imagine robotic miners, robotic drill operators.
That means more people can be in research sector or service sector. Until we replace service sector with humanoid robots and researchers with sentient AI.
Heck i for once welcome our new robotic overlords.
I wonder if this won't help the little guy. A lot of time you think it would be nice to get into some business or another but you can't because hiring an employee is too expensive and complicated. If you could by a robot for $5000 and have him do the labor, you could start your business.
This may mean the end of big business even.
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5k doesn't get you much of a robot, at least if it is supposed to do more than pick up one item at a perfectly defined place and put it to another. The initial investment is fairly high for robots, something small businesses will keep struggling for the foreseeable future.
Just food for thought. When we are replaced by robots for work how the hell are we expected to earn a living?
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Once robots have replaced the majority of the workforce either:
1. Money will become irrelevant and the world will enter a post-economic utopia.
2. The robot riots will begin, bringing the end of civilization as we know it.
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This is borderline click bait.
There's always gonna have to be workers to supervise and maintain the robots, right? Robot's can't fix themselves.... yet.
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No sense crying over spilt beer, unless you're drunk...
Yea, but who many robot repair men did they hire.. cause that's like what 10 new jobs they created too.
America and a few other countries with limited manufacturing per capita are actually pretty good case studies of what happens. While we of course aren't quite there yet, when the means of production are entirely automated, what's left is service.
Essentially the entire human economy will be a service economy, built around interpersonal interaction. Everyone will be an entertainer, a sales rep, a creative, a masseuse, a chef, etc. While the robots mine resources, build products/structures, and make a small few very very very rich; the rest of us will be busy entertaining or being entertained.
Video was reality-based for the first 2 minutes where he's talking about machines with narrow applications, but then when Baxter comes out and he starts talking about autonomous robots that only cost the electricity that powers them... he's off the deep end.
That's fantasy land. What about when Baxter breaks down? What about when he costs a company a million dollars because he went down at the wrong time? What about fixing him? What about the people it takes to maintain him?
Yeah. Still not worried. Baxter has taken exactly 0 jobs up to this point. He's a novelty and nothing more. We'll be waiting for decades for that to change, and capitalism isn't getting us there faster.
A narrow-application "robot" like self-driving cars is really the next step, not robots that can "somehow magically do everything for free." I'm guessing you haven't done a lot of looking at how software works in commercial application. It sucks.
The amount lost...especially when there's no infrastructure in place to re-train people and allow a few years off to study while it going broke supporting your family.
Farmers just focused on other farm-duties that required little-to-no training. Can't do that in America as that would be called a "starter job not meant to have a family with"
But then again, this is China - so they probably got picked up by some other slave-house.
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Much lower now that they installed factory suicide nets. As long as they kill themselves at home instead of at work.
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The more we automate, the more obvious it becomes that Capitalism is an unnecessary obstacle holding the majority of the population back to line the pockets of a much tinier group, the better.