Loading ...“With computers and robots come opportunity though because someone has to maintain and fix them.”
Not neccessarily. I used to think my job was safe because I was the maintenance guy who installed and fixed that stuff. Then the brainiac ‘business managers’ eliminated my job, also.
George Ure at www.urbansurvival.com has long ranted about robotics destroying the economy we once knew. The problem is that the tax structures make it advantageous for a business to invest in robotics as capital, and reap the rewards of robotic labor without having to pay the taxes of ongoing labor and production humans. Ure posits that robotic factories should be taxed on their labor-saving output… per piece, to be put on equal footing with human labor.
We are now seeing the business ‘backlash’ against the $15 minimum-wage demands of fast food workers. There are now ‘back kitchen’ machines that robotically serve up the McDonalds menu, with no human labor involved except to feed food supplies into the robot kitchen.
Robotics will reach a tipping point when no humans will have jobs or income to purchase the products the robots produce. Henry Ford was a visionary when he set up his assembly lines. He paid his workers enough so that they could afford to purchase a car that they helped produce.
I pity the young generation, and am glad I am not among them. They have no clue what is coming, and are ill equipped to handle it when it comes.