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I mean for every job lost due to automation isn't there another job created either building the automation or programming it or maintaining it? And these jobs would probably pay more than the jobs that were lost.
I mean for every job lost due to automation isn't there another job created either building the automation or programming it or maintaining it? And these jobs would probably pay more than the jobs that were lost.
I mean for every job lost due to automation isn't there another job created either building the automation or programming it or maintaining it? And these jobs would probably pay more than the jobs that were lost.
I am not sure it is a one for one comparison like that. A few of my coworkers and I were discussingI mean for every job lost due to automation isn't there another job created either building the automation or programming it or maintaining it? And these jobs would probably pay more than the jobs that were lost.
Gut feel here from general observation. Automation creates 5 good jobs and eliminates 100 crappy ones.
But that still means 95 people have to go find a replacement for their crappy job.
But that still means 95 people have to go find a replacement for their crappy job. And it's probably really all 100 of them, because it'll likely be 5 different people employed by the needs of automation.
I mean for every job lost due to automation isn't there another job created either building the automation or programming it or maintaining it? And these jobs would probably pay more than the jobs that were lost.
No, all you need to run a factory with thousands of robots is a good server and a small support team. One person can maintain or program thousands of robots. You are right they do get paid substantially more though.
The 4,600-square-metre plant is still being built but Adidas opened it to the press, pledging to automate shoe production – which is currently done mostly by hand in Asia – and enable the shoes to be made more quickly and closer to its sales outlets.
The factory will deliver a first test set of around 500 pairs of shoes from the third quarter of 2016.
Large-scale production will begin in 2017 and Adidas was planning a second “Speed Factory” in the United States in the same year, said Hainer.
I mean for every job lost due to automation isn't there another job created either building the automation or programming it or maintaining it? ...
No, all you need to run a factory with thousands of robots is a good server and a small support team. One person can maintain or program thousands of robots. You are right they do get paid substantially more though.
By far the most profound impact of automation was the invention of the cotton picker. This put millions of black workers out of work and led the Great Migration.
I mean for every job lost due to automation isn't there another job created either building the automation or programming it or maintaining it? And these jobs would probably pay more than the jobs that were lost.
BMW has been expanding it's plant in my home town for years. They just announced an expansion to their expansion, hiring another 800 people and...1700 robots.
I'm pretty sure that if it weren't for the robots, they would have needed more human labor.
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During the 20th Century the typical work week droped from 70 hours to 40. That, plus the invention of new goods and services is the way we solved the problem of unemployment during that century.
I dunno what's gunna happen in the 21st Century because my crystal ball is broke, but I have been told that the past is the best predictor of the future. So does that mean our work week will be down to 10 hours a week by the end of the century? I hope so, because the alternative would be massive amount of poverty and/or a huge welfare state. Shorter working hours just seems like a no brainer to me.
But couldn't your argue that the expansion on top of the expansion was possible due to automation helping the bottom line, giving them the capital for that expansion, enabling them to hire another 800 real people? Isn't it possible that without the automation, those 800 jobs would have never been created in the first place? Look at Henry Ford and the invention of the assembly line. Would car manufacturers be as large as they are now, hiring as many people as they do now if the assembly line had never been invented?
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