Re:Half the work people do can be automated: McKinsey
by RickS on Friday January 13, 2017 @08:11PM
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Re your comment:
>how you really stand out as a brand today is by opening physical stores that improves customer experience and brand.
How you really stand out as a brand today is by being better and faster than what's on amazon, which is hard as nails and has little to do with physical retail.
Re what your comment misses:
A whole lot of people drive trucks, cook food, and balance books. Those people will be jobless in our lifetime. (if anyone has advice on how to bet big on this, please share)
Re:Half the work people do can be automated: McKinsey
by aalireza on Friday January 13, 2017 @11:13PM
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If you have a sufficiently powerful/implementable automation method, any theoretical job they'd create by not being able to have it automated is just there until the time it takes for them (or for the job provider) to learn to have it automated, reaches.
Re:Half the work people do can be automated: McKinsey
by superninja234 on Friday January 13, 2017 @11:06AM
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I'm not sure your living in the same reality as everyone else.
How? Take retail as an example. Sure, an online store is cheaper to set up and run. Until every company has a web shop and you need to advertise to drive traffic, requiring a large ad budget and a marketing team just for digital. E-commerce becomes table stakes, and how you really stand out as a brand today is by opening physical stores that improves customer experience and brand.
In the same way, automation will cut jobs until it is ubiquitous. Then, searching for competitive advantage, firms will find new ways of adding value and hire people to do so.