45% of American jobs are at risk of being taken by computers in the next two decades.

[Trip]

Can you give an example?

Mass transit. Folks commuting to work, for $350 bucks a month, and the ticket taker makes more than they do, free benefits, etc. Its a boondoggle and there's nothing anyone can do about it.

Add on this article, which is scary....and they divide between classes continues to grow.

 

[DEAD7]

Mass transit. Folks commuting to work, for $350 bucks a month, and the ticket taker makes more than they do, free benefits, etc. Its a boondoggle and there's nothing anyone can do about it.

Add on this article, which is scary....and they divide between classes continues to grow.

I can understand a problem with the disparity in incomes, but whats the problem with how much the ticket taker is making?
Why do you feel he should make less?

 

[Trip]

I can understand a problem with the disparity in incomes, but whats the problem with how much the ticket taker is making?
Why do you feel he should make less?

Because if you allowed competition, it wouldnt even be close.(and a job that could be replaced by an electronic machine) We can talk about education too...another monopoly.

The private sector is facing competition from everywhere, adapt or die like you said.

The other side is only getting bigger and richer....on the backs of everyone else.

 

[DEAD7]

 

[CouldntBeMeTho]

Overall the removal of employee cost will lower goods and services for everyone. Should be a net benefit.

No one is going to be able to afford goods and services without a job. In an ideal world, automation should be used to free humanity from labor. I fear it will not be so simple. It's going to be a slow process.

 

[DEAD7]

No one is going to be able to afford goods and services without a job. In an ideal world, automation should be used to free humanity from labor. I fear it will not be so simple. It's going to be a slow process.

To be completely honest no one knows how it'll play out, but if we get replicators and shyt, ill go on record as saying it'll be an upgrade.

 

[Trip]

Wall Street Journal ‏@WSJ2m
Breaking: BlackBerry could cut up to 40% of staff by year's end. http://wsj.com

 

[Calmye]

The truth isnt always warm, its always been adapt or die.

You cant stop progress, and you only hurt yourself and those around you by trying to.

Naw I feel you breh. Its just

 

[FreshFromATL]

Wall Street Journal ‏@WSJ2m
Breaking: BlackBerry could cut up to 40% of staff by year's end. http://wsj.com

This has nothing to do with the topic though. This is what happens when you continually produce an outdated, shytty-ass product. RIM has to go reinvent itself or else.

As for the thread, just read-read the title...no way 45% of low-level jobs are replaced by computers with the next 20 years.

 

[Trip]

This has nothing to do with the topic though. This is what happens when you continually produce an outdated, shytty-ass product. RIM has to go reinvent itself or else.

As for the thread, just read-read the title...no way 45% of low-level jobs are replaced by computers with the next 20 years.

Doesnt that kind of fall into the adapt or die talking point?

 

[FreshFromATL]

Doesnt that kind of fall into the adapt or die talking point?

I see what you're saying...but with RIM, it's more-so based on basic business principles whereas every company have to adapt to the changing variables within their environment or face forced restructure, which usually equals layoffs. RIM just happens to be in the tech industry. For example, say most of the world stopped eating beef, but McDonald's continue to sale burgers...eventually they would face massive layoffs because they failed to adapt to change and no longer bring in enough revenue to pay employees. They have to downsize, restructure, and then if they can maybe right the ship, they will eventually hire again to meet an increased demand for their brand. You know what I mean?

With Blackberry, the fact isn't that technology replaced its workers, it's that the company failed to adapt to change and other company's (notably Samsung and Apple) consumed their market share.

 

[J-Fire]

people in here probably complain about sweatshops in 3rd world countries too....when in actuality sweatshops pay more than the other alternatives. All sweatshops which aren't slave driven pay higher than the average income by 2-4times as much.


Government corruption is the main issues with society. These same fears of new technology and conveniences have plagued society before....but it makes us better off.
This same argument was made many times in the past.

people will still try to hack the new AI for bad purposes....so now you will have cyber police being created to protect robots since damn near every chip has exploits because the NSA needs to be able to hack into things....NSA has had companies tone down encryption before. And with toned down security regular people can cause havoc and we need safe guards so robots don't get hacked and start putting poison in out beer cans.

 

[DEAD7]

people in here probably complain about sweatshops in 3rd world countries too....when in actuality sweatshops pay more than the other alternatives. All sweatshops which aren't slave driven pay higher than the average income by 2-4times as much.

 

[Vandelay]

Lol

 

[Mowgli]

Multiple trades guarantee not being unemployed stupit..