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Plumbing will unlikely ever any time soon be fully automated... it's too varied in terms of existing structures until AI becomes actual life. Similar for a lot
by tracker1 7y ago
Plumbing will unlikely ever any time soon be fully automated... it's too varied in terms of existing structures until AI becomes actual life. Similar for a lot of "dirty jobs."
Just look at how poorly the couple of attempts at McD's to automate the cooking processes, they failed miserably... Even today there's a lot of manual work in automated factories.
- stragies 7y agoIt was my impression, that OP was using the term "shit jobs" to denote jobs with low pay, but high effort, manual, dangerous, etc. "Plumbing" is therefore not a "shit job". It's well paid compared to most (Uber/Taxi/etc-)driving, cleaning, trash-collecting and many other jobs.
- tracker1 7y agoTrash collecting tends to pay pretty well too.
- stragies 7y agoYes, but trash collecting is super-easy to automate compared to automated "finding-of-plumbing-solutions". It all depends on the ratio "Ease-of-implementation" / "Cost of existing manpower" for each sector of job.
- tracker1 7y agoEven then, your own definition of shit jobs, " low pay, but high effort, manual, dangerous, etc." doesn't really correspond that well. High effort and dangerous jobs usually pay well... low paying jobs are inherently manual, and/or likely to be automated away. In the end, some things don't automate well. There's a human aspect to a lot of things, and many of those won't be displaced soon. Of course, I do understand that many other jobs cannot fill the void that will be lost, especially with an ever expanding population.