Re:The Next Industrial Revolution Could Put Millions Out of ...
by krapp on Thursday September 29, 2016 @10:45AM
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>, the other 4 are now pulled in things like maintenance, cleanup, admin etc that comes with running Robots.
No they're not. The entire point of automation to be able to extract the benefits of labor without paying for the burden of human employees. Unemployment isn't a bug, it's a feature.
More likely - all five employees are fired, and whatever skills those employees had becomes useless to them, as regards future employment elsewhere.
Operation, maintenance, cleanup, admin, etc. gets farmed out to contractors for a fraction of those former employees' salaries, or else shared by the remaining employees. A few people wind up reaping the benefits, everyone else becomes surplus to requirements.
No they're not. The entire point of automation to be able to extract the benefits of labor without paying for the burden of human employees. Unemployment isn't a bug, it's a feature.
More likely - all five employees are fired, and whatever skills those employees had becomes useless to them, as regards future employment elsewhere.
Operation, maintenance, cleanup, admin, etc. gets farmed out to contractors for a fraction of those former employees' salaries, or else shared by the remaining employees. A few people wind up reaping the benefits, everyone else becomes surplus to requirements.