In Idaho, a researcher at the state Department of Labor looked into automation and how it may play out locally. His overall estimate is based on that of the Oxford analysts, that nearly half of state jobs are susceptible within a couple decades.
But there’s no mention that workers are shoppers and are the engine of America’s consumer-driven economy. Nobody is discussing how the financial system is supposed to function without a healthy population of shoppers.
Or that the automation revolution makes immigration obsolete.
The robots haven’t taken over — yet.
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Probably ought to get into the robot maintenance business.
ReplyDeleteAs we should have gone into guns before Obama was elected. :)
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DeleteThe automation/robotics occurring now is nothing compared to the automation that occurred when tractors replaced horses. What is needed is good education (not under government control) using vouchers and a federal government that can not micromanage employers. It is small employers who are the innovators, not large corporations. But Obamacare has decimated small employers leading to much innovation being strangled before birth. One can hope Trump can reverse this and we focus on employing americans rather than illegals and immigrants with work visas. Punish imports whether goods or labor services. indyjonesouthere
ReplyDeleteThanks and although we had tractors, we still had a mule and horse team in the late fifties and early sixties.
DeleteShesh....ya look at all the buggy whip makers that are out of business. What about the Pony Express riders? Not to mention the ice man, the wagon makers, and of course the livery stable owners!!! I mean, who doesn't want to get rid of the refrigerators, email, cars, etc. etc. and go back to the good old days.
ReplyDeleteHeck, I guess even toilet paper helped the demise of the Sears catalogue and look how that turned out?
The biggest threat to people who work isn't robots or automation, it's government. From the so called "minimum wage" to mandated health coverage etc. government is and will always be the greatest impediment to people until and unless it is kept in the jail cell that was supposed to be defined by the Constitution.
Average Joe
“Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else.”
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