Automated Unemployment thread model 101

The Diabolical Monocle

Will you be replaced by a robot.

Sure we've all piloted a drone and used a tesco checkout, but what about some of the following.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5324BAxnAZU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Khb5cIq_mO0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t9Fxp3HK6DI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4iHTPP0aEd8

Worrying trend (for everyone except technicians and engineers) or robot butler time.

NuckingFacker

Good luck to the robot that fancies doing our job. There'd need to be about 500 different versions. We'd end up fixing robots if they caught on anyway. We fix everything else as it is.

Holsten

But as older jobs get replaced, new jobs that don't even exist will have to be filled.

The Diabolical Monocle

Holsten wrote: »

But as older jobs get replaced, new jobs that don't even exist will have to be filled.

Mayhap so my good man, I am neither hither nor thither on said proposition...so to speak.

I seek only to observe others as they to and fro with the subject, engaging in buffoonery and lampooning one another, while I chortle from the sidelines.

I had sought to put more examples up, but somewhat ironically my youtube device has been malfunctioning. A black screen with the sound yet not the illumination. ad tedium indeed.

shruikan2553

Studying electronic engineering means I will be required in the making and maintenance of our new overlords.

The Backwards Man

A chimp could do my job in fairness.

kneemos

The Backwards Man wrote: »

A chimp could do my job in fairness.

A chimp does.

The Backwards Man

kneemos wrote: »

A chimp does.

Ouch!

arse..biscuits

Its a pity our economic model makes us fear a robot taking our job. In a different system, people would be delighted to hear they don't have to do their brain dead labour any more.

stimpson

I recently started a new job. It's to automate some IT work so the customer will need less staff. Luckily they are only Project Managers, so it's not like any real people have to suffer.

The Diabolical Monocle

arse..biscuits wrote: »

Its a pity our economic model makes us fear a robot taking our job. In a different system, people would be delighted to hear they don't have to do their brain dead labour any more.

But what happens to the warehouse supervisor when something like KIVA (automated warehouse system above) gets installed. Then the manager just needs a whole lot less supervisors and a tiny number of staff.

Or the taxi driver (approminately 99.9% of Dublins current workforce) who's possibly one day in the future replaced with a self driving car. Not everyone can be a tech nerd.


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TheBrinch

I working in broadband tech support. Could easily be replaced by a robot or a recording!

"Have you tried turning it off and on again?"

Sh1tbag OToole

We need robots that can eat overpriced food, drink alcohol, rent houses and buy gimmicks they dont need from China and the economy will keep running without us.

We could then build a massive wall around dublin and observe the robots working for each other from a distance. The robots will pay tax to give the rest of us dole.

kneemos

If you want to know what the future holds just watch Captain Kirk,Spock and Bones and Co.

Rabelais

This is a wonderful presentation from Andrew McAfee:

http://www.ted.com/talks/andrew_mcafee_are_droids_taking_our_jobs.html

He's an amazing intellectual and an inherent positivist. It's an inspiring 14 minutes.

arse..biscuits

The Diabolical Monocle wrote: »

But what happens to the warehouse supervisor when something like KIVA (automated warehouse system above) gets installed. Then the manager just needs a whole lot less supervisors and a tiny number of staff.

Or the taxi driver (approminately 99.9% of Dublins current workforce) who's possibly one day in the future replaced with a self driving car. Not everyone can be a tech nerd.


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There is enough wealth (food/clothes/houses) for everyone. If we worked together (not exactly communism but that's the conclusion most jump to) everyone would only have to work maybe one day per week (if technology was fully embraced and money was eradicated). The rest of the time could be yours to do with what you like.

Our current system fears technology advancing because if one man looses his job then another has to pay more tax to cover the first man's dole. The second man's wages decrease because there are unemployed people ready to take it so he has to work more hours to make ends meet. You end up with a man on the dole (poor) and a slave (working poor).