Robot density figures are wrong arent they?

At least the Japan example is.. It should be in Japan there is 1 robot for 34 human workers..

I have to say I believe it is definitely a good thing, as it will effectively reverse the industrial revolution, as batch production jobs disappear people will have to turn to more creative and individual production methods, which create unique products. This kind of work has been shown to be far more fulfilling for people, than working in a factory doing the same thing over and over again.

Well, according to the first graph, the three ID’d industries include food services. Which just so happens to be the smallest impacted. At least in the western nations. Why? Federal governments know that eventually everybody that either is starting their first job, or is being displaced by robots, are entering the fast food industry. Lowest common denominator. The tech exists to completely automate fast food restaurants. But that will put millions more on welfare. So that graph is going to stay way low for some time to come. Conclusion? My job in maintenance at McDs is safe for some time to come.

Yeah, I think the descriptive text is wrong and it’s robots:humans.

@Spencer: The problem with people having to turn to creative and unique stuff is that that’s something that takes education and retraining, and in the mean time, you don’t have a job. If it all worked out that way, I agree it would be great, I’m just not sure if it’s realistic.

Fortunately my job isn’t readily duplicated by a robot. I wonder how folks felt at the beginning of the industrial revolution as machines replaced them? Within a generation there will be robot technicians, designers, etc. All good. Except for the poor folks out of work because robots are better than them. :(

There’s a logical fallacy here. The jobs the robots are replacing are already gone. If the robots don’t take the job it’ll be outsourced. It’s as simple as that.

at first look this could look good but realistically this will lead to a problem very quick. Spencer W-F took the hapy go luck view where everyone just doing more “creative and individual production methods” the problem with this view is you can’t do this on a mass scale. only a few people would make a real living this why while the masses fail. the idea of factory jobs is that they’re steady jobs that will pay you every week while the kind of “Jobs” Spencer or steady and you can long peroids without getting payed.

its most likely going to come down to a fight in the same way chid labor laws did back in the day. where the number of job for humans will have to be set by law or people will be hurt.

With due respect to everyone commenting here, the concept of “child labor laws” came into existence because children as young as five were scrambling all over Victorian belt driven machinery to fix jams, and getting mangled in the process. Had the machines been a damn sight safer, you’d STILL see children as young as five scrambling all over CNC machines. Sweat shop managers didn’t give a flying flip what happened. They got their crap bonuses as long as quotas were maintained. Children were expendable because the poor immigrants from Europe had to employ everyone in the family to save anything near what they were promised on the boat coming to the new world. All child labor laws did was to remove children from the shops, and put “barely legal” adults in place. Nothing was done to improve working conditions. The jobs issue is sensitive today, only because it is a global concern. Not something confined to the western nations of the industrial revolution.

My apologies to the BotJunkie community for a slight off topic rant. If you can read this, thank Evan Ackerman for not deleting it.

@Joey No worries, I don’t usually delete anything besides spam, obvious trolling, personal attacks and/or excessive mean-ness. Off topic generally (generally) is fine.

Everyone needs to (re)read “Player Piano” by Kurt Vonnegut. There will be a quiz afterwards.

Luddite fallacy, end of story.

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