Robots Continue Assault on Low Skilled Workers

Hey Lyn, How've you been?

You're 115% correct there!

Hey,

I've been livin' the dream.

How's the cats?

Why couldn't they just replace the homeless....

Now you are onto something: I can just see a robot (rolling, striding, inching, etc.) up to a booze hazy Vietnam veteran (sorry about that Vietnam Vets, just an example), and stating, "I am here to take your spot, and your job (whatever that is), so move along please."

I can also see the Vietnam Vet pulling out a hog leg and blowing the robot to smithereens, or just beating the crap out of the robot with a shopping cart of a walking stick.

Why not replace corporate CEO's with robots, heck make the entire Board of Directors robots? At least something would get done then. Maybe even this thing they used to call progress. Not that anyone here or there even remembers progress.

"Why not replace corporate CEO's with robots, heck make the entire Board of Directors robots? At least something would get done then. Maybe even this thing they used to call progress. Not that anyone here or there even remembers progress."

There was a Twilight Zone or Outer Limits episode about that. I think it ended with Robby the Robot taking over the CEO's (A young John Lovitz) job, and leaving the human workers to answe to the machine.

So then, instead of "the man" keeping "us" down, it would be "the machine" keeping "us" down? Sounds kind of like another (not so funny) episode of "Terminator".

What will you say when your job is done by a robot and you get laid off....You didn't work hard enough? You need more education? The time will come...read the writing on the wall....the workforce is being automated...

Where I work, we have three generating stations. We just mothballed two steam units (natural gas fired), have one GT ruined by a contractor, another GT out of the casing for new bearings, and a third one at this plant that is available and struck for this afternoon.

Soon, the plant where I am stationed now (like next week), will be essentially unmanned, just security cameras rolling tape when something trips them. The other two plants are off the primary contract, and on open market demand/strikes. This means we could be seeing the other two plants sit idle (lots new wind capacity in region), or not.

Could be by fall, forced retirement for the old guard like me. I am seeing not just the writing on the wall, I hear Santa Ana's Army marching and playing El DeGuello. My end is near. Tell Fannin to retreat, it will be over by the time his column arrives.

We are hard pressed on all sides, and are short of rounds, rations, and bandages. We cannot retreat as we are not well mounted, and would be quickly overtaken by the Mexican Cavalry. Tell Houston we are sorry.

Monkeys can't get health cards.

I guess that means all the billions of monkeys with trypewriters in Arizona will be going to part time, since no green card, or health card.

You do know what you get with a billion monkeys in Arizona with trypewriters? Operating manual for Windoze 10.

There are exceptions for registered Republicans.

Hey, Bernie, Hill/Bill , BO says "Jobs? We don't need no stinkin' jobs!!! We've made millions just by talking and being good guys! You can, too! Just vote Democrats in, sit back and let the good times roll!" I think Gaia is getting ready to fix the humans/primates wagon and the arrival of the superbug is the first shot of the cleanup effort. Maybe robots with working AI software (NOT MS-DOS version XXX OS) are the next evolutionary step. I don't think Earth will miss humans all that much.

Dang it, Gray, don't be so optimistic this early in the morning. It sets a bad example to the rest of us with either booze or Italian food hangovers.

I don't think we are creating,,, we already have created that generation, and it happened a few ago.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/innovations/wp/2016/05/25/ex-mcdonalds-ceo-says-raising-the-minimum-wage-will-help-robots-take-jobs/that says it all

I think we all know this started well before the "fight for 15 movement" ever came about. Cost efficiencies are one aspect, higher profit margins another. reaction to Romneycare yet another, and the millennials inability to interact effectively with other people. We saw the kiosk style restaurant popping up a few years ago along with the "mobile App" style. Both of which tout that you don't have to actually interact with a living human. Not sure how that is all that much fun but then have any of you been to a Starbucks lately. LOL

Anyway, it is the normal march of progress. The same as we saw in auto and other manufacturing settings ten years ago.

Nonhuman interaction isn't new at all. Can any one remember the "automats"? Everything prepackaged, put your coin in the slot and open the door, theirs your "meal"!

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Who's house? My house!

You are correct.