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Originally Posted by Ara Pacis
Moreover, there is a theory that automation and robotics will eventually make manufacturing even less of a mass employer in the future.
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not to be just manufacturing jobs that will be cut. Service sector jobs are being chopped by automation as well. Notice how many grocery stores now have "self-checkouts" these days? Somebody's
not working because of those things. We've got robots
that vacuum, clean pools, gutters, and even ones that will
cut your lawn. Humans are a
variable cost (health costs, pay raises, quality of work, etc.), robots are a
fixed cost, and as such, are more appealing. Employers are
always going to be looking at ways of cutting humans out of their operating expenses, so the amount of
jobs available to people is going to be on the decline (a process which is only going to accelerate with the increase in computing power). Wait till we get to the point that
anyone can be a writer, because all they have to do is punch in character names, the situations, and the software will do all the rest. (A future review of an author will no doubt include the phrase, "The current algorithm used by the author is much improved in this work, over the one used in his last book, but still not as good as the one the Stephen King Bot is using."
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