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I mean, it'll probably be missed by those who rely on it for their livelihood. I doubt they'll be offered much in the way of retraining or scholarship.
by st3v3r 10y ago
I mean, it'll probably be missed by those who rely on it for their livelihood. I doubt they'll be offered much in the way of retraining or scholarship.
- nashashmi 10y agoAnd that is the crux of the problem. Advances like robots working alongside humans are very good and healthy to quality of life, but the number of people who are displaced by such advances is unfair, brutal, cruel. The main people who are behind these acts are less considerate. A fact should be established that these technologies are needed, but the intentions with which they are built is sinister and evil. This leads to robots that are not helping a civilization advance but hurting it. Optimizations could have been created for the worker, but instead they are created for the manager, for the owner, for the businessman, for the shareholder, and for everyone else who thinks workers are the biggest problem in the business.
- Pica_soO 10y agoThats what Peter Thiel said about CEOs
- pjc50 10y agoThe thing is, it's not much of a livelihood or career - you can't do it all year, and it's very much only for the young and fit. And usually imported guest workers. Citation for "young": https://www.theyworkforyou.com/wrans/?id=2004-06-10.175439.h https://www.theyworkforyou.com/wrans/?id=2004-06-10.175439.h : average age of guest workers issued permits was 22. Broader discussion of fruit picking seasonal immigration (which mentions automation too): https://hansard.parliament.uk/commons/2016-11-30/debates/9F85AF34-B112-4AA8-BBF7-6ECB4542EC14/SeasonalAgriculturalWorkersScheme https://hansard.parliament.uk/commons/2016-11-30/debates/9F8...