Humans Loosing their jobs to technology

usac

I'm sure everyone has heard about people loosing their jobs to outsourcing to cheap labor countries, right? Well it seems we are steadily loosing more jobs to technology. Just a thought. How will humans work and make money if robots are invented to do 90% of all jobs currently occupied by humans?

keithdc

usac wrote: »

I'm sure everyone has heard about people loosing their jobs to outsourcing to cheap labor countries, right? Well it seems we are steadily loosing more jobs to technology. Just a thought. How will humans work and make money if robots are invented to do 90% of all jobs currently occupied by humans?

At least the robots will be able to spell losing!

tomtontom

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SailorSam

People started losing their jobs to machines from the time of the industrial revolution.

globalds

But the rich will get richer as they won't need to pay wages .

So things won't be so bad

DKLS

They were saying the same thing in the 70's, for me its all about skills if you have job ready skills you shouldn't ever be without work for long.

buglawton

Humans losing jobs to machines will put the West back on par with Asian cheap labour countries. The Knowledge economy will be stronger than ever. Democratic governments will be forced to redistribute income as much as ever. It'll be up to us humans to focus on our education and keeping fit when machines do so much mechanical stuff for us.

Takeaway_Addict

globalds wrote: »

But the rich will get richer as they won't need to pay wages .

So things won't be so bad

If companies don't change then the rich will get poorer and there would be no jobs at all in this country as they will all be outsourced

usac

buglawton wrote: »

Humans losing jobs to machines will put the West back on par with Asian cheap labour countries. The Knowledge economy will be stronger than ever. Democratic governments will be forced to redistribute income as much as ever. It'll be up to us humans to focus on our education and keeping fit when machines do so much mechanical stuff for us.

I like buglawtons idea. Government distributed money. Playing with robots all day.

Ozzuk

Let it happen. Let the UK become a leader in robotics and reap the rewards of consistent productivity that can come with it. Increase exports through quality and then government can increase corporate tax and provide the UK with a 'living wage' as per the proposals currently underway in Switzerland. People can then chose to work, or alternatively pursue more intellectual, contemplative or fitness/health based activities.

Works for me!

I'm off to run in the fields now.

[Deleted User]

I've made people unemployed by automating their jobs in a few different places. If the job you do can be replaced by a well designed touch-screen or robot.. time to retrain

BUT... i tread a fine line of making sure my own job can't be 'outsourced' to another country by ensuring I'm one of the geezers who does the 'design' work rather than grunt-programming.