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That’s still fine. You gotta hire people to maintain the robots, the people to build the robots, and the people for all service companies to service all those p
by markus_zhang 1y ago
That’s still fine. You gotta hire people to maintain the robots, the people to build the robots, and the people for all service companies to service all those people. Then there is infrastructure, entertainment, etc.
And on top of it you retain the knowledge to build, assemble and maintain these robots. This is alone worth the effort.
- johnnyanmac 1y ago>And on top of it you retain the knowledge to build, assemble and maintain these robots. Not with these constant layoffs and high turnover. We're not working like a country that wants to last long term.
- abe_m 1y agoI think we're starting to see the pile up that assuming people who worked assembly lines will just become robot tech isn't happening. For the entirety of humans, there have always been a place for low-skilled labour. We had subsistence farming, then as the industrial revolution came on, we ended up with a lot more types of labour jobs. As farms mechanized, we got factories, and as factory output went up, new products were created that needed labour to install them. Now that the remaining factories are requiring smarter workers, farms are pretty well fully automatic, we have a glut of working age people sitting on the sidelines unable to find work that is worthwhile doing. I think we're at the point where more automation means more loss of work, as opposed to people moving into the new jobs created, for an ever larger portion of the population.