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Trucking, fast food, and retail could face huge amounts of automation in the next few decades, and thats a massive amount of low end jobs that could disappear.
by jrs95 9y ago
Trucking, fast food, and retail could face huge amounts of automation in the next few decades, and thats a massive amount of low end jobs that could disappear. I think the idea of "fully automated luxury communism" is pretty silly, but there's almost definitely going to be substantial job losses, and I think we're approaching a limit where we don't have good low skill jobs to replace them.
- davemp 9y agoI think the problem comes down to simple economic factors. How much will it cost upfront to automate a specific area and how long will it take for such automation to turn a profit vs human alternatives. Right now: - the upfront costs are high - continued maintenance and update costs are uncertain - human are really not that expensive for what they can do My view is that humans are actually a much more valuable resource than most HN/reddit/social media users seem to think. Solutions that fail to account for the __massive__ available decision making and processing power of the ~7 billion existing humans will just not be competitive. Someone will always find a way to harness the human resource and put people to work. I just hope the people get compensated fairly and the work won't be miserable.