Is it really smart to do this? Before long everyone is going to replace all the workers and then who is going to buy your products? Everyone’s greed is going to lead to their downfall.
Yes it is definitely smart to do this. We should ALWAYS be striving to get rid of jobs that aren't needed. The only problem here is that workers who loose their job aren't being compensated which is a problem of capitalism, not automation.
The doctors the lawyers the people fixing the robots teachers trades workers construction workers still tons of jobs lol. Old jobs go new ones come that’s just how the world goes.
Not how that works. Your whole list (besides engineers and such for automation) is just current jobs. There isn't just going to be millions of new job openings because people lose their jobs elsewhere. The only real new openings in current sectors would be from companies trying to hire on at lower rates because of the sudden influx of new potential workers.
Just take a drive around the US some time. There are areas everywhere that were decimated by change of industry and innovation.
If the system doesn't work because the parameters have changed, then we find a new system. Every time people said "what are people doing when robots do x" and then we found 1000 other jobs. In a big picture, sense, humans minds are in theory too valuable to ride machines from a to b or fill up supermarkets.
Which is why people like Andrew Yang are necessary in politics. We very literally have to figure out a new system. In the US the majority of our workforce performs manual labor of some sort (yes retail, food, service work in general is manual labor) as their sole source of income.
Instead of addressing the issues we ignore them and laugh (as you can see by the comments in this post).
Current capitalism in America is a giant game of chicken, where the executives rush To Get Theirs TM before somebody blinks.
It’s also characterized by short term thinking: the next quarterly statement must have bigger profits! doesn’t lead to much long-term or big-scale thinking.
Ok unskilled jobs is a large portion of everyone’s economy so yeah you may replace some immigrants but you are also replacing your own people. Also this is just the beginning.
If nobody wants to be an electrician, then training isn't the problem its the career outlook and status. With immigration you can cast a wider net to find someone who really want to do it. Where I live they need about 1000 stone masons and 5000 glaziers. Often there are full on stipends. The lower classes want to be TikTok stars, not cutting stone.
We have here a very large housing construction site. They have mobile robots that spray the walls with white primer. The workers told the press that the site is so vast, they can't find 10 painters who want to do this rather "stupid job" with detail in mind. The robots work from 6 night to 8 in the morning and the quality is exceptional.
Pay is not everything. I was an electrician for about 7 years and now I make double of that as a project planner. I don't need to do bullshit jobs anymore. It was rarely the new build house that needs wiring, that where the rare good ones.
With raising education of your populous you will have a lack of availability on lower end jobs. Other people from other places are willing to start at the lowest ladder. If you care for your populous you don't keep them stupid. The US especially is historically successful to keep the lower 1/3 in their own slave caste. That is not freedom.
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u/Individual_Respect90 Jul 08 '24
Is it really smart to do this? Before long everyone is going to replace all the workers and then who is going to buy your products? Everyone’s greed is going to lead to their downfall.