Comments on: Robots Enter the Job Market

By: Tom Austin

Tom Austin — Thu, 05 Jul 2012 20:57:51 +0000

Those who control the capital of the world will continue to seek to maximize their profits, not give people newer and easier jobs to accomplish with all the new leisure time the robots provide. As they maximize their profits (which is great), what is the common schnook on the street to do? Giving all the schnooks a free pass isn’t the answer. What is?

By: Ross Lowe

Ross Lowe — Tue, 03 Jul 2012 16:33:11 +0000

Don’t worry about robots taking all the jobs. If they did, who would have money to buy what is produced? What will happen, I believe, is that the market (if the d—–d politicians will just leave it alone instead of trying to “save” it) will provide newer and easier jobs for us to do with all the new leisure time the robots provide.

By: Bruce Kuzma

Bruce Kuzma — Sun, 24 Jun 2012 14:48:50 +0000

With the Babyboomer generation leaving behind the vacuum of less love, child abuse,state welfare child care and education. The programming of those in this generation has been of selfishness, anti-sociaand lism and fear torelate. If America is going to compete in a global work force it must be able to manufacture its own products without dependance on others. To expand its base we must have more children that feel they want to bring a child into this world, train it properly develope the understanding of what our ancesters tired to accomplish.

By: Ben

Ben — Thu, 21 Jun 2012 16:18:54 +0000

“If you could read my mind”

I seriously doubt the likely hood of robots and humans ‘working together’ on the factory floor. Take two companies producing the same thing, one uses humans and robots, the other robots and robots.

What does the human in the H/R factory bring to the equation that makes that company more profitable than a sole robot factory? Nothing is my estimation. When you can have entirely “lights off” factories running 24/7/365, why risk messing it up by sticking a clumsy human in the mix?

Honestly, I think Ray K. is correct is how technology is/will increase exponentially, but he hasn’t thought about the economic consequences beyond “it’ll be fine”. Perhaps it is even out of fear that a generally ignorant and reactionary public will become mass-luddite.

M. Ford has it right in that we will need to decouple the notions of production=consumption. We will be needed to consume products, but not to produce them. But try selling the idea of an unearned income to any society today…