I've Been Warning Y'all....Many Low Skill Jobs Will Soon Disappear

[Terrywoodenpic]

Many products can be made now 24/7 in dark factories by robots.
they need no rest or health care. insurance or pensions.
They have a defined life cycle and can be replaced and recycled at termination.
Robots can replace workers at every level including robotic service modules.

Humans are a drain on, and a danger to, national resources, and can and should be recycled for maximum efficiency.
Only owners of raw materials and manufacturing facilities have a legitimate function in the short term. but should be phased out as necessary.

To further reduce operating costs... all possible manufacturing and production should be reduced to a minimum and land returned to self regenerating flora and fauna purposes.

 

[Revoltingest]

It is, and as I said we need to fix that. I said in post #219, "We need to revamp k - 12 education." and in post #225 "we can set new standards for the core classes." and in post #228 " whatever else we select as a core requirements."

What is truly amazing is how much money we spend on the military and how little we spend on education. No wait, amazing is not the right word, shameful, that is the word I am looking for.

Regarding military spending....I'd say the worst thing is the where rather than the how much spent.
Too much is for world police efforts, when it should be for self defense.
Education would benefit from more money, but that won't solve the problem.
The system needs a major overhaul.

 

[Jeremiahcp]

Regarding military spending....I'd say the worst thing is the where rather than the how much spent.
Too much is for world police efforts, when it should be for self defense.
Education would benefit from more money, but that won't solve the problem.
The system needs a major overhaul.

"Too much is for world police efforts"

Ah, but don't you know? The US is trying to conquer the world.

 

[Revoltingest]

"Too much is for world police efforts"

Ah, but don't you know? The US is trying to conquer the world.

No....it's worse than that.
Americastan wants to save the world.

 

[Terrywoodenpic]

No....it's worse than that.
Americastan wants to save the world.

If The rest of the rest of the world goes down the plug hole
So does Americastan.

 

[Revoltingest]

If The rest of the rest of the world goes down the plug hole
So does Americastan.

The problem lately has been our ham fisted approach to saving them from themselves.
Many millions killed.

 

[Terrywoodenpic]

The problem lately has been our ham fisted approach to saving them from themselves.
Many millions killed.

That is true ... however they need no help in killing each other, the various sects need no excuse. And have done a majority of the killing.
The fault of westerners was to break the deadlock that was keeping them from each others throats.

 

[Shadow Wolf]

The problem lately has been our ham fisted approach to saving them from themselves.
Many millions killed.

The harsh reality is we live in a globalized world. True enough that some countries hate us being there, but some worry they will not be able to support themselves and defend themselves without American assistance. And in many places if we do just pull out, it won't just be those places that suffer but we too shall have to shoulder the repercussions because we so often depend on many of these places, such "developing nations," to shoulder the burden of being in economic limbo so that we may have our own luxury and convenience.
America really only has America to blame.

 

[Revoltingest]

The fault of westerners was to break the deadlock that was keeping them from each others throats.

The 3 Stooges Syndrome!
(For those who don't know it, google it.)

 

[Revoltingest]

The harsh reality is we live in a globalized world. True enough that some countries hate us being there, but some worry they will not be able to support themselves and defend themselves without American assistance. And in many places if we do just pull out, it won't just be those places that suffer but we too shall have to shoulder the repercussions because we so often depend on many of these places, such "developing nations," to shoulder the burden of being in economic limbo so that we may have our own luxury and convenience.
America really only has America to blame.

I'm OK with mutual defense pacts...useful relationships.
But I hate nation building & pre-emptive war....where we cause trouble.

 

[Shadow Wolf]

But I hate nation building & pre-emptive war....where we cause trouble.

Unfortunately almost anywhere we are is because of nation building. Even where we do face legitimate threats, those dangers have been exacerbated by and grew up with American/British colonialism and imperialism. ISIS is partially the result of what may be from a sudden absence. But it is something that only came to exist because of an American presence.
I often say I'm glad I'll be dead before global environment issues peak, and rather than over abundance we have scarcity of many things including water. When it comes to this seemingly perpetual cycle of things going in the Middle East, I can only hope I'm dead before things reach their worst, because I don't look for America to stand on the side of freedom and liberty when it happens. And by that point a best case but unlikely scenario is that only Muslims are effected in a negative way.

 

[Revoltingest]

Minimum Wage Massacre: Wendy's Unleashes 1,000 Robots To Counter Higher Labor Costs | Zero Hedge

 

[Revoltingest]

Meet Flippy....
Rise of the Machines: A Burger Flipping Robot Is About To Start Work at a Fast Food Chain

 

[Shadow Wolf]

Minimum Wage Massacre: Wendy's Unleashes 1,000 Robots To Counter Higher Labor Costs | Zero Hedge

I vote we poke holes in the CEO reservoirs of mountains of cash. If they are making millions and billions a year, we should find it unacceptable that they keep making this much while slashing at jobs, wages, and benefits of others without taking any losses for themselves.
As for Zero Hedge, I wouldn't put them any higher in credibility than InfoWars. And, of course, this technology and the plans and equipment didn't just appear. But, rather, few it seems are noticing the timing between increasing wages and sudden appearance of these machines. And they aren't addressing studies that are showing these machines really aren't replacing jobs, but rather shifting them around.

 

[Revoltingest]

I vote we poke holes in the CEO reservoirs of mountains of cash. If they are making millions and billions a year, we should find it unacceptable that they keep making this much while slashing at jobs, wages, and benefits of others without taking any losses for themselves.
As for Zero Hedge, I wouldn't put them any higher in credibility than InfoWars. And, of course, this technology and the plans and equipment didn't just appear. But, rather, few it seems are noticing the timing between increasing wages and sudden appearance of these machines. And they aren't addressing studies that are showing these machines really aren't replacing jobs, but rather shifting them around.

Are you criticizing the source because you find it wrong?
If you have studies to present, please do so.

 

[Shadow Wolf]

Are you criticizing the source because you find it wrong?

I actually hold several complaints over Zero Hedge, including the toolish and out-of-context use of the name/image Tyler Durden, and because they are often reactionary, biased, and missing key facts. In this case that these kiosks are for ordering, and people are still needed to prep, cook, and put together the food.

 

[Revoltingest]

I actually hold several complaints over Zero Hedge, including the toolish and out-of-context use of the name/image Tyler Durden, and because they are often reactionary, biased, and missing key facts. In this case that these kiosks are for ordering, and people are still needed to prep, cook, and put together the food.

Your criticism applies to just about every source cited on RF, eg, NPR, Fox, Alternet, Wa Po, NYT, Mother Jones,
But do you challenge the article I posted for any reason other than the source?

 

[Shadow Wolf]

Your criticism applies to just about every source cited on RF, eg, NPR, Fox, Alternet, Wa Po, NYT, Mother Jones,

None of those sources are trying to look cool by using the name and image of a character who would actually despise them doing so, and not just for doing it, but for bringing up topics that he finds pointless and meaningless and he has not a single care for. And the group he formed had one resource, being shared by those who needed it, and it was explicitly stated there was no money involved in it. He was also a menace to corporations successfully took down the banks by literally taking them down.
Given this chosen monicer, it's easy to imagine an author who is the bitter angry version of the 40-Year-Old Virgin who read and agreed with Ayn Rand. However, the site has a credibility that is no better than Brietbart of HuffPo.

 

[Revoltingest]

None of those sources are trying to look cool by using the name and image of a character who would actually despise them doing so, and not just for doing it, but for bringing up topics that he finds pointless and meaningless and he has not a single care for. And the group he formed had one resource, being shared by those who needed it, and it was explicitly stated there was no money involved in it. He was also a menace to corporations successfully took down the banks by literally taking them down.
Given this chosen monicer, it's easy to imagine an author who is the bitter angry version of the 40-Year-Old Virgin who read and agreed with Ayn Rand. However, the site has a credibility that is no better than Brietbart of HuffPo.

Now I want to cite him more often!

 

[Willamena]

In the news today.....
How robots will kill the 'gig economy'

Of course, many others notice that automation & smart machines will upset the apple cart.
So I get no credit for stating the obvious.
But I've been yelling about it a lot....& will continue.
I've no solution.
Anyone?

The solution is to make another job for the displaced people.