I'm adding different videos to serve as examples for this discussion. How many jobs can be lost because stores no longer need humans to clean the floors?
Next we have Walmart working on self driving shopping carts. These shopping carts will be able to drive themselves back to where carts are kept in the stores. So no more cart pushers? How many more jobs will be lost because this will not just be Walmart doing it in the upcoming years.
How many delivery drivers will eventually lose jobs to robots that can deliver some packages without humans?
Would anyone actually want a robot to deliver your pizza? Amazon doesn't need many humans anymore, do they?
Technology will advance which is expected but what happens to the potentially endless millions of people that will lose jobs over the upcoming years?
This is posted on the GAW because it is relevant, very much so. The DS can have people being reduced to sitting at home collecting a check, maybe the universal basic income.
People will become more dependent on the wannabe masters of the world that hold all the wealth. Those same people push for technology to remove more and more human jobs because then there are not enough jobs left for these people so they are forced to sit at home and let the government take care of them.
I don't want robots doing everything for me. I don't want a robot helping me to shop. I have a fucking brain and actually enjoy shopping. I don't want a robot to ruin that for me. I don't want to sit on my fucking ass at home and order my entire life online and have robots deliver it to me at home.
How long until there are robot toilets that will lick your ass crack clean for you and blow it dry without needing toilet paper? I know that sounds crazy but we live in crazy times so nothing would surprise me.
Technology is good but we can't allow technology to make millions of people jobless and dependent on government because there are no longer any jobs for them.
No matter how things advance, there still has to be some form of currency and work. If robots did everything for us and we sat home not having to do anything then what good is money?
This is slowly leading to the elite using wealth and power to control the population. When people no longer are needed for jobs, what good are they then? It all ties into the great reset. Less humans needed for work so why keep those humans alive on the planet?
Self Driving Floor Cleaners 1: (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-rcsfI881pY)
Self Driving Floor Cleaners 2: (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GIjT7qO2Wz0)
Self Driving Floor Cleaners 3: (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YPlMbrkC9MY)
Self Driving Floor Cleaners 4: (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l83DCYOqj7w)
Self Driving Floor Cleaners 5: (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DSAecKb4YOc)
Self Driving Shopping Carts: (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xOXb-RHQoRU)
Self Driving Delivery Robots: (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cdGabty6z-4)
Delivery Drivers No More: (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nf0a7lHdprk)
The Clock Is Ticking On Human Jobs: (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_waZrhOZVWY)
Truck Drivers Don't Matter Anymore: (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=llAQyawBau0)
Less And Less Humans Needed: (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ox05Bks2Q3s)
Who Cares About Delivery Drivers Anyways: (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dagjQW_jgtE)
Humans No Longer Needed To Check Inventory 1: (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KRJV1SPYpIE)
Humans No Longer Needed To Check Inventory 2: (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMZM5rMOIPE)
Robots Struggle Without Human Logic: (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HiOyedmHiZg)
Who Needs Taxi Drivers Anyways: (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O69YEWpSacU)
The squeeze will come from two directions - technology, especially in the face of increased minimum wage and inflation, and immigration, both legal and illegal.
Thanks for the detailed write-up!
I've long thought about this as well. One thing that I haven't figured out is how will people find purpose in such a life. As much as I enjoy the space-faring Star Trek series, I wonder how a human's sense of purpose would evolve. I know that I've been drawn to the mixed reality field since creating those experiences for people can be transformative.
Many of us just want to live life in peace doing whatever makes us happy. The issue with robots taking jobs is about people having a means to pay for goods. If you want to buy a new TV, there's a long process involved.
Someone is paid to build and put together the TV. Then someone is paid to box up the TV and someone else is paid to load the TV into a trailer. Then you have a driver that delivers it sometimes to a shipping yard.
Then someone else loads it into a container on a container ship. Then you have a crew running the ship to transport it. Then at the next shipping docks there's people paid to unloaded then more drivers to deliver to distribution centers then people stocking putting items away then putting together orders for a local store.
The local store has people going over inventory of what to order. Then someone in that store has to stock the items on shelves then cashiers. These are not made in USA right now but if they were then you'd remove the shipping container boat part.
I went through the entire process because I've worked in all of those fields before. Given that all of those people have to be paid for their time and labor, the cost has to trickle down all the way to the consumer buying the finished product. We can't expect things to happen without currency so people having jobs is important.
I didn't appreciate that sense of purpose to earn what they get in life until a long conversation with my Dad. He can't from Vietnam with my Mom with very little, and they've worked very hard for what they have.
I offered for awhile to take off a lot of bills with my sister, but he always hung into a few. He said that it have him a reason to get up in the morning. With all of those jobs that you mentioned, there's still a human there for it. What happens when 100% and not just 95% get automated? Do you think that could ever happen with all of the automation going on? Or will more roles evolve?
One thing that has continued to make others think is the "just learn to code" statement. Many now won't learn to code because they don't enjoy it in life. "Learning to code" drives people to a field where they might code themselves out of a job unless they are in the top 0.1% in the future.
People saying learn to code might be great for some but lots of people would hate it and not want that as a job. People shouldn't have to have jobs they hate just to survive in life.
Those that work for what they get in life will not owe anyone anything. The DS and CB wants everyone in debt because they can obtain some control that way.
If you have a mortgage, what happens if you're famous on social media and are pro Trump anti Biden and the bank holding the mortgage finds a way to void your contract and foreclose on your house and leave you homeless.
The government can seize your own even if you own it, if they deem it necessary. There are many very crooked things in life that should be illegal but government and big business seems to always get away with fucking over the little guy.
Things that are automated, including robots, can be remotely monitored. One single person could easily monitor hundreds remotely which effectively can kill hundreds of jobs just in one instance.
I’m going to be 44 this year and am learning to code.
TL:DR but I will. However, what about the natural creativity of people who have time available? We can CREATE and we can form powerful groups and governments that will keep the monsters at bay. We humbled Fox News and we can humble Amazon and the CDC and the FDA AND the uniparty. WE are the power here. So, they have powerful robots. We can build even MORE powerful robot-ARMIES and SMARTER. Can the corporations cooperate with each other, without FUNDING? Without comms? Without electrical power? They are our SERVANTS, not our masters.
OP, I think your alarm is well intended but what I hear (so far) is, "Hey, let's get off our asses and TAKE BACK what belongs to US!" I don't mean to be dismissive; I WILL study what you've offered - and with due respect I think you have raised important points. So? WE'VE GOT WORK TO DO! You have issued a call to arms. Well done. Now, let's get BUSY!
I know the most important people in society are the ones some may think of as grunts but those that build homes, buildings, roads, etc, those are who keeps the world going quite literally.
I know it could be decades or even hundreds of years away but you can bet on it that those running tech companies creating all the robots and such, they want less humans working because then they have less wages to pay, less liability, so more profits and control.
We've all been guilty to an extent of sleeping through life while these rats infested our government locally and federally. They infested big tech and more also.
Even if the military fixes the election, takes down the entire DS, and Trump returns as president, we still have to deal with technology. Technology is great but we just can't let today's luxuries become a catalyst for a future form of enslavement.
Companies that create, build, sell, etc all this tech do not have our best interests in mind. It's not illegal for them to want to replace people with machines. We just have to keep an eye on things like this and not let it get out of control.
Those companies do not care about us. They do not care if our lives are screwed up. We have to find ways that us regular people can bypass big tech or put in place methods to keep them from going too far.
Many are playing catch up to big tech because for years people were fine and happy with what was being offered. During those years, these companies grew and grew into dominant forces.
I guess the short version could be that we need to get off the sidelines and innovate and not allow big tech to be who creates everything.