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Automated Unemployment thread model 101

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  • #2
    NuckingFacker
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,221 ✭✭✭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.


  • #3
    Holsten
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,971 ✭✭✭Holsten


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


  • #4
    The Diabolical Monocle
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,618 ✭✭✭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.


  • #5
    shruikan2553
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,113 ✭✭✭shruikan2553


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


  • #6
    The Backwards Man
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,299 ✭✭✭✭The Backwards Man


    A chimp could do my job in fairness.


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  • #7
    kneemos
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,786 ✭✭✭✭kneemos


    The Backwards Man wrote: »
    A chimp could do my job in fairness.

    A chimp does.


  • #8
    The Backwards Man
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,299 ✭✭✭✭The Backwards Man


    kneemos wrote: »
    A chimp does.
    Ouch!


  • #9
    arse..biscuits
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,878 ✭✭✭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.


  • #10
    stimpson
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,707 ✭✭✭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.


  • #11
    The Diabolical Monocle
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,618 ✭✭✭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.


    Please press the hashtag after your reply.


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  • #12
    TheBrinch
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 291 ✭✭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?"


  • #13
    Sh1tbag OToole
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,971 ✭✭✭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.


  • #14
    kneemos
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,786 ✭✭✭✭kneemos


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


  • #15
    Rabelais
    Site Banned Posts: 263 ✭✭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.


  • #16
    arse..biscuits
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,878 ✭✭✭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.


    Please press the hashtag after your reply.

    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).


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