The Gravest Threat to Your Job Isn’t Illegal Immigrants: It’s The Robots!

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Sorry, couldn't help it.

Robots had already started replacing human jobs a long time ago. They does not look like robots but functions as robots. What I am saying are the automated machines we have from the ATM to large factory automated machines. They don’t look like humans but replaced a lot of human hands.

Yep. Even China is losing jobs to more “efficient” manufacturing techniques which, obviously, includes robotics.

Should the world enjoy a healthy spiritual renaissance, get their heads out of the ass of media, politics, and self, return to the simple joys of engaging in activities that don’t involving buying a bunch of useless bullshit, perhaps robots will take on much more personal utilitarian function.

For instance-cellular telephones have done little to make life simpler or better. Unlike the washing machine, which hasn’t changed much since the analog days, the cell phone combined with needy, unskilled and overworked armies of automotomatious meatsacks without talent or basic survival skills has become a liability and nuisance. Reception compared to landlines is pathetic, microwave exposure is continual for those addicted, and with the advent of the useless masturbational excess of text messaging, it has made life more dangerous for all on the roads.

The problem is not with the robots we make, it is with the robots we have become-

My degree is in Robotics and when I landed my first automation job there were 12 people working on 5 assembly lines. As new lines were added, they were added with robots and automation built in. Between new lines, I added automation and robots to the older lines. When I left the company, there were 11 lines and 9 people per shift.

The robots cost $65,000 and replacing one person per shift per day payed for themselves in less than 9 months. But don’t feel bad for the people they replaced. The company just didn’t replace the people who got themselves fired. Manufacturing in the USA will not survive without robots.

I work at a medium sized manufacturing plastics plant. We have had to add robots because we can’t find competent people to run our presses. We can find them but they can’t count or speak English or they work until their first paycheck and they quit. The amount of money we spent on robots was very easily made back in a short period of time. It’s sad but we have to do what we have to do to stay competitive.

Labor will never again be the constraining factor on productivity. Be happy. This is the end of slavery. We replaced middle-management with 386sx PCs running Windows 3.1 20 years ago. Now we’re replacing Chinese preteens with ARM-powered arms. For the next 20 years, you are free to be your own failed CEO.