07-06-2017, 06:48 AM
(07-06-2017, 05:34 AM)SickBeast Wrote: It's going to be extremely interesting to see what happens with automation, robots, and autonomous vehicles. With self driving cars we are almost there, less than five years away. Think of all those truck drivers, taxi drivers, bus drivers, and couriers. All out of work simultaneously. They make up a huge chunk of the economy. Actually pretty much the entire retail sector is going to be wiped out. Just picture Amazon with robots working in their warehouse and other robots delivering everything. They are going to have to tax the robots. Hopefully with enough tax revenue from the robots we can have lots of "slackers" living a decent life off the system. Because the way things look our economy will no longer have enough jobs to support all the people living in our societies. To look beyond these facts is both foolish and ignorant.
https://gizmodo.com/robots-are-already-r...1793718198
Quote:. “Predictably, the major categories experiencing substantial declines are routine manual occupations, blue-collar workers, operators and assembly workers, and machinists and transport workers,” write the authors.
Experts predict that the stock of robots in the US will quadruple by 2025, jumping to 5.25 more robots per thousand workers (there are currently about 1.75 industrial robots in the US per 1,000 workers).
http://money.cnn.com/2017/03/24/technolo...index.html
Quote:Jobs at risk of automation, by country U.S.: 38% Germany: 35% U.K.: 30% Japan: 21%
Hmmm rag tag knuckleheads on the forum time forgot say all the jobs gone to robots in 5 years, experts say some low skill jobs lost, some high skill jobs created.
What to believe/