Workers will have to adapt to robots, just as they adapted to industrialization and automation. Today, we would laugh at the idea of weavers demanding to keep their one-man looms so that they could continue to make a living weaving cloth, but three hundred years ago that was a hot topic. Men used to earn a good living making wooden wagon wheels -- where are they now? They are dead, because history passed them by, and other men got other jobs doing other things. Wheels stopped being made of wood and began to be made of metal. Things change. That's the reality of life. What point is there in complaining about it?
The argument here, so claimed, is that machines and algorithms can now replace all jobs, regardless of complexity. They herald neoludditism as legitimate (where before it was illegitimate), as this time there won’t be any jobs left that cannot be automated.
Yup, I realize that, but I don't believe it. What I'm saying is that past generations of workers also thought that their jobs were gone and that they would never find work to replace them, and that their families would starve. It didn't happen. There was some hardship during the transition, but people adapted to it, and our generation will adapt to robots, when they become common -- we aren't there yet. Soon the entire trucking industry is going to be turned onto its head, because all the transport trucks will be robot driven. Truck drivers will have to find new work -- and they will, because humans are adaptable.
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ardvarcus ago
Workers will have to adapt to robots, just as they adapted to industrialization and automation. Today, we would laugh at the idea of weavers demanding to keep their one-man looms so that they could continue to make a living weaving cloth, but three hundred years ago that was a hot topic. Men used to earn a good living making wooden wagon wheels -- where are they now? They are dead, because history passed them by, and other men got other jobs doing other things. Wheels stopped being made of wood and began to be made of metal. Things change. That's the reality of life. What point is there in complaining about it?
Tallest_Skil ago
The argument here, so claimed, is that machines and algorithms can now replace all jobs, regardless of complexity. They herald neoludditism as legitimate (where before it was illegitimate), as this time there won’t be any jobs left that cannot be automated.
ardvarcus ago
Yup, I realize that, but I don't believe it. What I'm saying is that past generations of workers also thought that their jobs were gone and that they would never find work to replace them, and that their families would starve. It didn't happen. There was some hardship during the transition, but people adapted to it, and our generation will adapt to robots, when they become common -- we aren't there yet. Soon the entire trucking industry is going to be turned onto its head, because all the transport trucks will be robot driven. Truck drivers will have to find new work -- and they will, because humans are adaptable.
Tsilent_Tsunami ago
*hijacking automated trucks