Automation will probably wreak havoc during U.S job loss

[Aztechnology]

This was always going to happen. COVID just sped up the timeline.

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This.

 

[Freezasaurus]

UBI is going to be vital.

 

[cnorwood]

Honestly I don't think automation is going to be a big factor right now. You automate when the costs of automating are lower than the costs of just having someone do that job. With high unemployment wages will fall and thus getting cheap labor to do your tasks becomes much easier than automation. Especially since it turns out that a lot of low skill labor is only low skill for humans, while a machine may be able to do the strict register duties of a cashier job it cannot also stock shelves, watch out for crime, answer questions, etc. You could install separate machines for all of these tasks but that'll get very expensive quickly. Generally anything that gets near customers, even if it's just moving to the same shelves, is going to be tricky for a machine to do accurately and safely. A robot nurse would have to be insanely complex to match the abilities of a human nurse.

And ultimately, how much would automation help with the pandemic? Businesses get shut down because they're unsafe for consumers and factories still need engineers to maintain the machinery.

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I currently work for an industry that monitors operations from single homes to large industrial solar sites, we have got even busier during covid. You don't need tons of people to maintain this stuff and a lot of the times its easy to social distance.

 

[-COOLIO-]

It's coming sooner than we think it is.

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awesome!

 

[Conal]

Fully automated, luxury communism here we come!

 

[soulmatic]

 

[samoyed]

Don't worry, we just need to strap on our job helmets and fire ourselves into job land.

 

[soulmatic]

That whole Twitter feed is a bunch of Automation innovations. A lot things are gonna change and society needs to adapt & evolve sooner rather than later. The workforce will be looking very different in the next decade.

 

[t0rment]

So basically... we are all fucked? Nice to know that I already lived my best years.

 

[LukeOP]

You think Automation is bad, wait until low/no code wrecks the IT industry.

 

[Mekanos]

Hmmmm, maybe workers should own the means of production then to ensure that they aren't left to die. 🤔

 

[samoyed]

Hmmmm, maybe workers should own the means of production then to ensure that they aren't left to die. 🤔

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Can't own the means of production as a worker if you're not employed.

 

[soulmatic]

You think Automation is bad, wait until low/no code wrecks the IT industry.

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Yeah man. Eventually Google or Apple will acquire and integrate companies like Zapier. It'll be like an arms race. Do More With Less.

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The practice squad player that's basically a moving pylon. He's getting his ass cut.

 

[soulmatic]

Automation post of the day:



Look folks the world's sweat shop issues are gonna be solved... one robot vs 200 people. Gaddam.





Once all the physical infrastructure is built for all this automation there's gonna be no turning back. Good thing is though new jobs will emerge from all these innovations hopefully. Let's just hope that our elected leaders are realistically mindful and have empathy for those displaced in the workforce of the world when the time comes.