Sure.
But that’s been here for years too, and unemployment is down and wages are up.
Yep! I’ve never tried to make the case that technology will negate the need for people to work. Skillsets will change just as they did with the industrial revolution. While restaurants might need less staff due to automation, there will be opportunities elsewhere for those willing to apply themselves.
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Seems to free up the human talent pool for better things.
Yep! The key here is one’s willingness to change with the times.
There are Kerug type devices that can make standard mixed drinks. So the role of a bartender is not completely safe. Nonetheless I do think that most of the jobs being discussed are safe for now.
Agree. I see this as a gradual change, giving those affected plenty of time to adjust or retire. In my chosen field the future caught up with me. I was at a point in my life where I simply didn’t want to retool my skillset. I was burned out and thankfully able to retire at a ripe old age of 69. Had I been a lot younger I would have been forced to adjust or find another career.
More engineering jobs to design the equipment and technician jobs to fix and maintain them.
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And programmers to program the new technology.
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DougBH
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Self checkout is used at least at Olive Garden and Chilis.
So a future combining self order like mcDonalds and self checkout would make a difference.
DougBH
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Watch the engineering be done overseas as in India, or immigrant engineers who don’t have huge school loans they have to pay off.
You persist in the foolish delusion that a bartender’s job is just to hand people alcohol. And it’s not.
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Hold on to it, I have a feeling silver is going to keep going up over the years.
Something needs to give, it’s untelling the full extent of what’s going on in those camps other than what has been said by those who made it out which has been horrible. Not sure what the wests tolerant level is if full genocide gets uncovered. I think we are only at the beginning of this.
Delivery people zooming by me on their motorized bicycles in NYC.
Zoom…another goes by. Those I guess are robots too…
Allan
G.E. started doing that decades ago.
zantax
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Currently reading a book, which sort of recommends that we can already have AI, by paying people to do micro cognitive tasks for a pittance. author postulates, is there a difference between AI and HI.
While this is most certainly true, not all technology creates as many jobs as they replace. Some are created with the sole purpose of removing the workforce.
Forget self check out lanes, just the scanners at supermarkets cut the workforce in half. A typical day at a supermarket in a populated area would have roughly 15 lanes open until 10PM. That’s around 20 paid cashiers on all day.
In the late 80s AI started doing 70% of my job at New Jersey Bell (now Verizon). That was just a computer program. No one lost their job, but 70% of the department filled in at other locations. They didn’t have to hire new people.
The job I have now. EZ-Pass and other plate reading devices has either eliminated, or vastly reduced the workforce. Those maintaining these new technologies aren’t even close in numbers to the jobs they’ve removed.
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Yeah well, no more jobs for buggy whip makers either. Shouldn’t be tolls in the first place. I am conservative, doesn’t make me a fan of regressive taxation.
Well, the motor vehicle created far more jobs than what they replaced. It isn’t even close. And we’re not talking about removing tolls, just those that collect them. Besides, unless you’re going over a bridge where you pretty much have no choice, tolls on roadways can be avoided. People choose to pay them.
I haven’t paid a toll on the turnpike since 1997. I may have paid a few small tolls on the Garden State Parkway in that time. Especially the Turnpike, they’ll soak you for far more than it would in gas to go around it. I can get to every exit on the NJTP without having to take the actual roadway.
I’ve always taken into account where I live in relation to where I work. I would avoid two things. Having to pay tolls every day, or having to sit in super heavy traffic every day. I have to think of that, I live in NJ. And never had to do either one.
Already see that in my career field. More than half our staff was based in India. One good to come from that was on-call rotation. Prior to off shore, we had to provide after hours on-call software support. We were able to do that from our home office, but still got woke up in the middle of the night. With off shore in India that was their normal business hours so they were able to provide that support and we got to sleep through the night.
