Robots in 2015, by Marshall Brain
03 Feb 2012 Leave a Comment
Via Scoop.it – CyberInterNetics
The rise of the robotic nation will not create new jobs for people — it will create jobs for robots. The unusual thing about the robotic revolution is that the robots will come and displace millions of workers throughout the economy, but the robot industry will create very few new jobs. Millions will be unemployed in America, but there will be nothing for them to do. Conventional wisdom says that the economy will respond to all of these unemployed workers by creating new jobs for them. But look at our economy today. For the past 40 years, the economy has been generating millions of low-paying service sector jobs that create a large class of employees known as the working poor. 60% of the American workforce makes less than $14 per hour today [ref]. If the economy is going to be creating millions of high-paying, exciting, fulfilling jobs for all of these displaced workers, it would be doing it now. Why can’t all of the Wal-Mart/Target/McDonald’s/etc. employees who are going to get displaced in 2015 step into their new, exciting, higher-paying jobs right now, instead of waiting? It’s because the economy tends not create jobs like that in any sort of volume. At this moment, instead of creating exciting new jobs, the economy is locked in a race to the bottom. This race is marked by a workplace that continuously creates lower-paying jobs instead of higher-paying ones. The Race to the Bottom =======————================ Editorial: It’s not important to my strategy that massive amounts of people heed my CyberInterNetics warning. The few of us who are ready to survive is enough to keep humanity viable. We could’ve built a socieity that made it where human beings would have been free to follow their psssion since human beings would no longer need to work to feed themselves, clothe themselves, house themselves, etc. ah well, ~plasmaborne4rel
Via marshallbrain.com
