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There's a good chance of a large percent of low-income and blue collar employees being replaced by machines. The issue is that we still use money as an allocati
by Kinnard 11y ago
There's a good chance of a large percent of low-income and blue collar employees being replaced by machines. The issue is that we still use money as an allocative technology, which means we have a system where people have to work in order to live. This doesn't make sense any more and people don't actually have to work to live.
- eliben 11y agoIt's going to take quite a while before the restaurant waiters and dish washers, house cleaners, plumbers and gardeners of the valley will be replaced by machines though.
- rdl 11y agoVery long time for all of them, yes, but marginal employees can be reduced through automation fairly quickly. Go from 3 people to 2 at a restaurant by using more pre-cooked food or automation, buy a better PoS/order management system to remove one waiter from front of house, etc. You don't even need to fire anyone -- just hire more slowly than otherwise when things are growing, and potentially not replace people when they leave (although that's less scheduled).
- Kinnard 11y agoQuite a while like a decade or two? That's not that long for the end of labor, a 10,000+ year human institution.