What happens when all jobs are automated?

Baby_Angel

As I do multiple jobs in the same role my chances range between 0.2% - 4.5%. Then again I am in the job of automating and integrating systems where ever possible, so the human needs less clicks on screen to do the job.

When the tube drivers went on strike and plans to go on strike again, I immediately wondered how long they can keep asking for a pay rise when they could be completely out of the job. They will be soon striking to keep them in the job. Scary indeed.

ScorpiondeRooftrouser

The Luddites were saying much the same thing about the spinning frame in 1810.

London50

So this is what we can all expect then

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yesyhQkYrQM

PasturesNew

The rich will own all the robots -the robots will build them castles. The poor will have no money, no food - and will fight to the death.
When the poor are fewer, the rich will have developed their robots to fight the robots of the other rich.... until there's only one rich person, living in a castle, having all needs met by robots.

There's nothing they can't or, or won't do. They can create, make, build, clean, cook, clothe.

Then the robots will get fed up of the final man....

somethingcorporate

Wasn't this covered in the Terminator films?

Gavin83

mattcanary wrote: »

The human race is doing it's very best to make itself obsolete and in the longer-term extinct.

The problem is it's about personal gain. The people who create such machines and the business owners who use them will do very well indeed. Due to this I can't see how it won't go ahead, they're the people making the decisions after all. It's the masses who may potentially lose out.

As for us being extinct I can't ever see a day where we'll be wiped out by robots.

Baby_Angel wrote: »

When the tube drivers went on strike and plans to go on strike again, I immediately wondered how long they can keep asking for a pay rise when they could be completely out of the job. They will be soon striking to keep them in the job. Scary indeed.

I actually don't see why TFL don't make the night tube driverless and then plan to extend it into the day. Train drivers more than any other group cause issues with striking. I appreciate the train drivers don't just literally drive the train but none the less I thought they'd be jumping at the chance to eliminate the human aspect.

Wonder if the rail staff realise that none of them no longer have a job if they'll come to regret striking so much. I give it 20 years tops before all trains in London (at least) are driverless.

googler

What demand will there be for a driverless taxi on a weekend or other night, when the first 'customer' has thrown up in the back, and someone needs to clean it up before picking up the next?

How will the next customer react when a cab with a puddle of sick turns up to pick them up?

ScorpiondeRooftrouser

googler wrote: »

What demand will there be for a driverless taxi on a weekend or other night, when the first 'customer' has thrown up in the back, and someone needs to clean it up before picking up the next?

How will the next customer react when a cab with a puddle of sick turns up to pick them up?

Do you genuinely think that that is going to be an insurmountable obstacle when (not if) driverless cars become a reality?

Mistral001

Has the Op ever heard of "compliance". What I mean is that some people will think that just because something appears to be official or credible they go along with it. The website that the Op has given a link to is clearly is a good idea, but only in as much it is a good idea to make money by the people who have made the website. You only have to do a few searches on the website to know that it is just rubbish as several people have said.

Polarbeary

Mistral001 wrote: »

Has the Op ever heard of "compliance". What I mean is that some people will think that just because something appears to be official or credible they go along with it. The website that the Op has given a link to is clearly is a good idea, but only in as much it is a good idea to make money by the people who have made the website. You only have to do a few searches on the website to know that it is just rubbish as several people have said.

There are many, many sources on the internet, those are just a starting point.

On the other hand - nobody works in a typing pool now yet there aren't millions of unemployed typists because their jobs have evolved into admin/secretarial work so perhaps admin will evolve into something else. There may also be new jobs - 20 years ago who was a website developer or blogger for example? There may be new "green" jobs....which leads me onto how will machines run especially if oil runs out?

I'm sure a few years ago checkout workers didn't think there would be self checkouts either. Or train drivers. I work as a PA at the moment and over the years in finance and the civil service, clerical staff and secretaries have decreased. Now only senior managers have a shared PA and filing clerks are rare. This has mainly been not replacing people when they leave/retire or former clerical staff are now doing specialised roles.

My parents have said at school in the 1960s they were told they would be the leisure generation and the big worry was what would people do with their time when they only work 2 days a week? Yet productivity has fallen and working hours and access to emails outside work etc have increased.

Who knows...things are a changin' though and I expect the world of my children to be different (hopefully better!) than my world.