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Aren't we about to be abounding with mechanical inclined labor? Like aren't all truck drivers and car drivers about to be automated? This seems like a nobraine
by thrownblown 10y ago
Aren't we about to be abounding with mechanical inclined labor? Like aren't all truck drivers and car drivers about to be automated?
This seems like a nobrainer.
Relocating that labor surplus towards supporting a repairable mechanical/technological industry and commercial future seems really plausible.
That sounds like a decent job, troubleshooting and repairing the machines, designing machines to be repaired. Better than driving trucks.
- marcosdumay 10y agoHow much is is worth? Assuming every "fixer" is competing with some industry robots somewhere, what is the ceiling on the fixer salary?
- thrownblown 10y agoI was assuming in our little hypothetical utopia that most consumer goods are designed once again to be repaired and upgraded. I was also imagining a bunch of truck drivers looking for jobs, since the robots took them all. Further along in my thought experiment, I imagined that if I owned a sizable fleet of robot cars I'd rather repair and upgraded than replace them. So I figured if you're into trucks, have basic the mechanical skills required to drive a truck (tire chains, flat tires, oil change, spark plug change) that a new job maintenaning, repairing and upgrading the new fleets of robot taxis and trucks might be right up your alley. For some reason self repairing robots seem a bit further off.