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Yes, robots really are about to take your jobs

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Man. I am all for this. At least they won't mess up my cheeseburger with no ketchup order this way. Let's be real. They still might, but there will be one less person to blame when the do. The only problem I see with this is that there is no time to wait on the screen. Off topicImagine if there was a chain based on a bird, and it tweeted to you when your customer burger was in. OMG

No more vibrating drink holders from now one, when your booth is ready, someone will tweet you!

Idle hands are the Devil. But when we think about people and what they need, people need honest and purposeful, thought provoking and enriching work. Not busy work of taking orders at a point of sale machine.

We also don't need to chicken nugget wars. Remember all of the poultry farms they had to kill in the midwest. There was a recent post I read on the reddits, but I'm having trouble locating reference this year. Anyway, FDA is/has/or is currently considering allowing poultry producers to export chickens to places like china, and return them as processed meat. whattheshit.com? This should cause alarm for everyone.

China sets up first unmanned factory
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Just in case you don't click: A few months ago, it required 650 workers to finish this process.A robot arm can replace six to eight workers, now there are 60 workers and the number will be reduced to 20 in the future .
So people are losing jobs. Thats not good. Here is the kicker:

Data at the Dongguan factory show that since the robots came to the plant the defect rate of products has dropped from over 25 per cent to less than 5 per cent and the production capacity from more than 8,000 pieces per person per month increased to 21,000 pieces.

The machines can do it better!

 
If there's anyplace that can pull off replacing workers with robots without warrant, it's China. What I mean is for example in America, unions and workers rights organizations would have a fit and push back. But good old China will make this full force.

Really, I think it's a good thing when using the automated work done to benefit everyone, except it's usually done to benefit the few to get rich and stay rich. To expand on that, and I wrote something in detail in some other post, but would it be possible to have robots do all the hard labor and reap the needs for all people (with some few exceptions)? I think many rich people find money and greed entertaining to live at the cost of people over working themselves, while all we need is our basic needs (can mostly be done by robots) and modest entertainment without all the hard work. Of course, this wouldn't happen within the first years the robots would start replacing most workers, but would take time for the system to balance itself out.

 
Haha well, I read pretty much every post here and it seems like you guys have it pretty well covered, decided to toss in something non-sequitur'ish.

Movie rock and rolled, hooted and hollered, vanilla and chocolated, spic and spanned!!!

Sorry still hung over from last night :cautious: :censored: :confused: :oops: :eek: o_O (y)

It's a good dystopian movie that touches on themes that one can already see emerging in the world today (as the gap between the ultra-rich and poor grows wider), but I don't wanna spoil it for you! I must go back to ... the place where I go

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Haha well, I read pretty much every post here and it seems like you guys have it pretty well covered
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I dunno. Now that have seen some scenarios that in which robots may take our jobs, I think there is a lot more a person could tie into this. I find the following things quite topical: Based on July 2014 data, the largest county in the United States has slightly more people than the population of the 11 smallest states. The 10 largest counties have the nearly the same population as the 23 smallest states.
Check out this post about the increase in global life expectancy.

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We could strictly stay on topic and talk about which scenarios robots will be taking over our jobs, or how long until they do. What are we going to do with all of those people? Especially, if they will live to be 150?

 
Our society will be a more than ever dependent on the foundation of what we built it on. Over population, along with out of work people will multiply the many issues we have today. But over time, through natural recourse I suppose, we will see things iron themselves out, but just to start it's cycle all over again.
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Pretty much what's going on.

As for what governments should do to prevent social unrest in the wake of mass unemployment, the Microsoft cofounder said that they should basically get on their knees and beg businesses to keep employing humans over algorithms. This means perhaps eliminating payroll and corporate income taxes while also not raising the minimum wage so that businesses will feel comfortable employing people at dirt-cheap wages instead of outsourcing their jobs to an iPad.
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The only alternative is mass genocide or government conspiracy stuff like GMOs and pesticides to long-term kill the masses.

 
Pretty much what's going on.The only alternative is mass genocide or government conspiracy stuff like GMOs and pesticides to long-term kill the masses.
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I'd rather die quickly than slowly. Theoretically, GMO's and pesticides and their change of discourse from nature cause slow health degradation and a miserable life. I'm not that paranoid about low level pesticides and such, but there are too many artificial things today causing possible dysfunctions to our health. Anything in moderation is ok and not worth the worry, but we probably should start worrying when everything we eat or touch has higher than normal toxic chemicals, especially since they accumulate in the body.

 
Once the 3rd world countries come online and are self sufficient, we can stop farming our substandard land with petrochemicals. Instead, we can spread out, not have to live on top of each other. No one needs to live in an apartment or a trailer any more than anyone needs servants or to live in a mansion.

It seems we are over complicated things for ourselves.

Cause conflict in a far away place, waste local resources to send aid to troubled area that can't farm, rebuild that land, give them "jobs" they didn't need. If "we" would be satisfied, and stop killing, lying, opressing, "things" would be "better."

Humanity gets in its own way.

 
With all the talk of $15 an hour increases in the news lately, you bet your ass major corporations are looking more and more to remove the worker out the picture. Also health care plays a big part in this also. You will start to see all these tests for unmanned food places starting to go in place soon. Look at Walmart, look how many unmanned registers there are. I bet in the next 5 years you will see maybe only 1-2 cashiers at McDonalds the rest will be automated order machines. These business aren't dumb, these preparations have been years in the making. They know what's coming and they will be ready. Crazy part is more and more people will be out of work. The also affects why our country is becoming so violent and crime laden. Look at other countries that don't have problems with jobs. Their citizens are happy. So what is going to happen when a man can't find a job anymore? Robots were original created to make Man's life easier, not to ruin it.
 
Wendy's open to robot burger maker/self ordering kiosk to avoid $15/hr wages

CFO Todd Penegor talked about the pressure to pay higher wages and said that “we continue to look at initiatives and how we work to offset any impacts of future wage inflation through technology initiatives, whether that’s customer self-order kiosks, whether that’s automating more in the back of the house in the restaurant. And you’ll see a lot more coming on that front later this year from us.�On last week’s call with securities analysts, Wendy’s CEO Emil Brolick was asked how the franchisees who own and operate Wendy’s locations could raise prices to offset the higher wage costs in places like New York. He replied that “our franchisees will likely look at the opportunity to reduce overall staff, look at the opportunity to certainly reduce hours and any other cost reduction opportunities, not just price. You know there are some people out there who naively say that these wages can simply be passed along in terms of price increases. I don’t think that the average franchisee believes that.�
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Mr. Brolick elaborated that “we believe that some of these increases will clearly end up hurting the people that they are intended to help. And we continue to believe that one of the great opportunities you have in a business like ours is that an entry-level person, in a very short period of time, can rise to become a manager in a restaurant, and have an income above the median household income in the United States of America.�
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Instead of a drive thru, we need a burger that drives to us. That's the ticket! Mobile food truck. Not just a food truck, but one that has a robot make it while a robot drives...no, a robot burger maker in an autonomous car ! Bundle a dog catcher into that and we've got a triple play!
 
How hut? Robo-hut! I bet that robo noodle is made with more love than ramen. That is Ronco's next product coming to a late night infomercial near you!
 
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