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Jesus H Christ, not this shit again. 95% of Americans do jobs that will be replaced by "intelligent enough" computers and robots. If you believe that's not a problem for our current economic system, then you're simply an idiot.
If Bobber didn't try to generalize from one very specific and limited form of research to the wider world, I might give his opinion greater weight. You seem to think enough baby steps in computer science will eventually replace the intelligent application of the human computer. While you have a great deal of company in these forums, you're all wrong.
No matter how great the fervent hopes of basement dwellers across the globe are who yearn for the halcyon days of never having to interact directly with another human being while, having every fantasy delivered directly to their brain by fiber optic implants, believes it to be the ultimate freedom, those of us who can still think will tuck you in, wipe the drool from your mouth and, go on building real accomplishments while you dream.
What frustrates Hanna Newberg about her life right now isn't just that she's working as a waitress at a chain restaurant or renting a small apartment in western Massachusetts. The problem, Newberg says, is that she did everything she was told she was supposed to do -- went to college, went to graduate school -- and still, she's waiting tables.
Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.
Jesus H Christ, not this shit again. 95% of Americans do jobs that will be replaced by "intelligent enough" computers and robots. If you believe that's not a problem for our current economic system, then you're simply an idiot.
In the not too distant past, 98% of Americans were farmers. Today, only 2%, and we throw food away we have so damn much of it.
We also had buildings full of women manually connecting phone calls, now that work can be done by a Cisco router. We had teams of men cutting ice from mountain ponds, then a whole network of delivery trucks to get it to everyone's houses. We had rooms full of men crunching numbers that can now be replaced with a spreadsheet. The word sabotage itself is from a 15th century protest against automation of textile looms.
Do we have 99% unemployment because all these jobs were automated away? Of course not.
America is per capita one of the wealthiest country in the world. It is also has some of the worst income inequality. Many countries have way lower wealth, but way better standards of living and employment rates. Why? Because money isn't exclusively in the hands of CEOs and investors, and because they don't outsource all their jobs, and the governments heavily fund industries and education programs so that people do have jobs.
You can lambaste her for the degree choice, but there are very few "safe" choices any more. Accounting/Tax work, Finance, IT/Programming, R&D... you name it. They're all being outsourced to India, the Philippines, China and others. Seems like if you're not actually getting your hands dirty in a medical job working directly with patient care the future can be pretty iffy.
As someone that works for a company that "outsources" to India in the Finance world I can truthfully say they make very little difference.
It's when we have some mind-numbing tedious task that would take any human a large amount of mindless time that we say "Send it to India". Needless to say, I'm not worried one bit. Business is as safe as you can get.
In the not too distant past, 98% of Americans were farmers. Today, only 2%, and we throw food away we have so damn much of it.
We also had buildings full of women manually connecting phone calls, now that work can be done by a Cisco router. We had teams of men cutting ice from mountain ponds, then a whole network of delivery trucks to get it to everyone's houses. We had rooms full of men crunching numbers that can now be replaced with a spreadsheet. The word sabotage itself is from a 15th century protest against automation of textile looms.
Do we have 99% unemployment because all these jobs were automated away? Of course not.
America is per capita one of the wealthiest country in the world. It is also has some of the worst income inequality. Many countries have way lower wealth, but way better standards of living and employment rates. Why? Because money isn't exclusively in the hands of CEOs and investors, and because they don't outsource all their jobs, and the governments heavily fund industries and education programs so that people do have jobs.
that's the point.1. Someone has to physically make those Cisco routers. -Manufacturing/Production/Distribution Jobs
2. Someone has to design and test those Cisco routers. -R&D/Testing Jobs
3. Someone has to maintain those routers. -Customer Service/Support Jobs, as well as Firmware Updates.
4. Someone has to install those routers for customers -Setup Jobs.
I can go on-and-on-and-on for each of those examples of how one job closure opens a slew of more.
Do you know what the driving factor of farm consolidation in the USA is?Some things, however, are competition issues - such as the farmers issue. The fact that we have so few is an actual competitive PROBLEM that should be addressed. But that's a different story.
Do you know what the driving factor of farm consolidation in the USA is?
No, I don't. But I'm sure it's a number of factors stemming from things like GMOs (Large farming corps finding efficient means to quickly produce, leaving traditional farmers in the dust).
There is *STARTING* to be a comeback with things like farmers markets cropping up in towns - but I doubt that is going to explode since too many still rely on only what the grocery store sells.
Awesome quote. Just forwarded to my three girls in college.Hellen Keller said:Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.
Nope. Farms merging is a direct results of Federal Farm Subsidies. That darn gov saving us some more.
So why aren't new ones cropping up? Explain more....
I have a friend out in Arizona trying to farm and she keeps complaining how hard it is for her to startup anything (IE: Can't place words like "organic" or "natural" even though they totally are, she has to pay a huge ass fee in order to be able to put those words on them).
FTFY. The more efficient production does not open doors to more better jobs, it opens doors to fewer jobs--whatever the displaced can find. Those jobs may pay more, sometimes, but less people are going to be required to maintain the router-building machines than were required before, when humans were doing it all. Eventually the humans assembling modules that the machines actually made will be replaced, just as the people actually making all the parts were years ago, and the people maintaining the previous machines will just learn how to maintain the new ones in addition. Not only that, but machines don't even have to do the replacing. Chinese lives don't mean squat, so they can do just as well as human labor, to the same effect as machines (and, without even having all that domestic maintenance to pay for).1. Someone has to physically assemble those Cisco routers. -Manufacturing/Production/Distribution Jobs
2. Someone has to design and test those Cisco routers. -R&D/Testing Jobs
3. Someone has to maintain those routers. -Customer Service/Support Jobs, as well as Firmware Updates.
4. Someone has to install those routers for customers -Setup Jobs.
I can go on-and-on-and-on for each of those examples of how one job closure opens a slew of fewer.