Our great American schools are
producing great engineers every year. They all have jobs helping to make our
country an automated nation full of robotic devices to replace every job in
manufacturing and labor. There is even a machine that makes perfect pizza every
time. Do you mean the guy with the cigarette and the sauce stains on his shirt
who spreads the pizza dough perfectly can be replaced too? What is this nation
turning into? How are these advancements going to help give the poor slob a new
well- paying job when just about everyone can be replaced by an automated
machine?
20,000 pounds of freight loaded
in a large truck can now be driven on our highways without a driver. Ouch! The
thought of that scares you yet it is already a reality. I thought pizza makers
and truck drivers would be the last guys to be replaced by automation. There
are self- driving robotic trucks now. Who is going to pull the air horns for
kids to delight in the sound anymore? Starsky Robotics was founded just in 2016
and have trucks without a driver on the road now. There are many other
companies like Otto following their lead. Otto is owned by Uber who is also
testing driverless cabdrivers. Who will you talk to in a cab anymore? Well, I
might not miss those conversations. They already exist in Texas and Arizona so
don’t wait for a driver to get into your cab.
What will the people do that have
those jobs? In the United States alone
that is 180,000 taxi drivers, 600,000 Uber drivers and 3.5 million truck
drivers. Even installing the vehicles with self-driving equipment can be done
by a machine! I say just give people money to live from all the cash these
machines will generate but you know that will never happen. Martin Ford wrote the book called The Rise of
the Robots and he said that driverless cars and trucks are just the beginning
in the rise of automation in this country. Millions of jobs in every industry
at once will and can be replaced by a robotic device; even a machine to pour
the perfect ice cream cone!
America employs nearly 5 million
store workers to pack out goods and be cashiers. Shoppers in Seattle are now
able to walk into a store, take what they want and simply walk out of the door
with the items and you will find a bill for each item on your cell phone and
pay directly from your bank account. The cashiers are totally gone. At Zume
Pizza in Silicon Valley pizzas are made only by machines. I guess computer
geeks like that. It is clear that robots replace repetitive blue collar jobs. Computers
are analyzing tumors in the medical field with more accuracy than the human
eye. Algorithms are finding their way into journalism. Every 30 seconds there
are new stories published on some website and only computers can sort them out
quickly for accuracy and truth.
BlackRock is the world’s largest
money manager and now they are laying off humans and shifting to machines to
pick their Wall Street stocks. The machines are rising over managers to pick
stocks. Blackrock favors computers over humans in judging what stock to pick. By
2025 across the financial industry artificial intelligence is expected to
replace 230,000 human workers. How are you going to fix that job problem Mr.
Trump? If anywhere automation should have taken over what is left of the coal
industry and save some humans from danger and black lung disease. At Goldman
Sachs, they hire nearly as many computer engineers as humans. No more screaming
guys on the stock exchange floor? Now the experts are called coders. Is any job
safe? Can we replace Trump?
47% of American jobs can be lost
to automation within 20 years. It is time to think about what to do with all
the unneeded humans in the workforce. A prosperous modern society should give
every human say 10 grand per year just for being alive. It is not just a dream.
Experts are thinking about adding such a stipend to our nation’s economy. Do I
have to wait 20 years for that? Besides just money, we all need a meaning and a
purpose in our lives. A reason to get out of bed. I am sure we all can find
something to do.
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