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But they will?

Robots will only take jobs not requiring human skills. Think about it.

I was shocked to see how many Employees an automated assembly line has on each Cell for Rollershades on a recent company field trip.

99% automation, but 100% operated by humans.

HEY YOU says

But they will?

I give a zero % chance that robots will take all the jobs away in America ;-)

Strategist says

Robots will only take jobs not requiring human skills. Think about it.

Also, another myth I pointed out in the article, when people say... we don't make anything anymore

Logan's job will be taken by this robot:

Lego Wall-E

Logan Mohtashami says

I give a zero % chance that robots will take all the jobs away in America ;-)

That they haven't so far says nothing about the future.
I think you are confusing "having a few jobs that humans will still do" with "still having a capitalistic society".
My take is capitalist is doomed. The norm will be not to work. People will focus on other things.

Sharingmyintelligencewiththedumbasses says

In that movie people became obese people looking at facebook all day ;-)

I was never afraid of this robot taking my job either

Heraclitusstudent says

That they haven't so far says nothing about the future.

They said the same thing about technology in 1970's - 1990's the future of human displacement in mass force

Not only did this never happened, we have today the biggest job openings any country has had in a human history.

What people tend to never want to talk about is the creation of new sectors through technology

Medical device has created a new industry ...

You never really hear the good technology has done as much as the few people it has displaced because Manufacturing output is high while less people are needed, this is true

Heraclitusstudent says

My take is capitalist is doomed. The norm will be not to work.

Actually that's what capitalism is -- the legal framework that allows people to receive income without working.

In the future we're just going to even this out a bit more . . . like the Scandinavians.

Or we can go the Latin American route, the wealthy have their ghettoes and 95% are outside the wire.

Bernie Bros want the former, the GOP is fine with the latter, as it's good business for the NRA.

The Chinese have learned that a one trick pony economy has limits and they're trying to expand to a service sector economy to create some balance.

They learned... good for them

Logan Mohtashami says

They said the same thing about technology in 1970's - 1990's the future of human displacement in mass force

Yeah I got a FRED graph for that, too:

Before GUI PCs one out of 60 working-age people had info jobs.

Between Windows 95 and the Dotcom crash this rose to one out of 50.

Now it's one out of 75

Bellingham Bill says

Between Windows 95 and the Dotcom crash this rose to one out of 50.

2000 was the peak for sure... I studied this back in the late 1990's

Problem we have with Americans, none of them really learned economics in the 1990's to be aware of the demographic push into the new century both positive and negative

Then they were shocked that LPR fell in the 21st century when any who bothered to study and read about this knew this.

To this date no person in the world that I can recall in history ever forecast this

Everyone is so political blaming this president and that president and none versed themselves economics enough to know it was all folly

Strategist says

Driving trucks is an unskilled blue collar job soon to be replaced by robots that don't take drugs while driving. $15.00 is more than enough.

For the robots?

Couldn't we just program them not to want money? LOL.

Real median driver earnings 2000-2015

better try driving for uber