This is what so many people don’t understand. Jobs that used to take many people to do are now done by 1 or perhaps 2 people monitoring the machines. A good example would be farms. Today they are massive with some farms being thousands of acres. When my mom was a girl a farm of 200 to 300 acres was considered almost too big to be worked. Another example is Amazon.com check out this video of one of their fulfillment centers at work. Almost no people but plenty of robots..https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cLVCGEmkJs0
Futurists and science-fiction writers have at times looked forward to machines’ workplace takeover with a kind of giddy excitement, imagining the banishment of drudgery and its replacement by expansive leisure and almost limitless personal freedom. And make no mistake: if the capabilities of computers continue to multiply while the price of computing continues to decline, that will mean a great many of life’s necessities and luxuries will become ever cheaper, and it will mean great wealth—at least when aggregated up to the level of the national economy.
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But even leaving aside questions of how to distribute that wealth, the widespread disappearance of work would usher in a social transformation unlike any we’ve seen. If John Russo is right, then saving work is more important than saving any particular job. Industriousness has served as America’s unofficial religion since its founding. The sanctity and preeminence of work lie at the heart of the country’s politics, economics, and social interactions. What might happen if work goes away?
I think it is Obama that has falsely boasted about 805,000 “new jobs” in 8 years of his term In the oval office.Those are government jobs more than private sector jobs which were largely low pay and shorter hour jobs.…///…www.washingtonexaminer.com has this 12/6/16 article, “US economy: No recovery, wages in reverse” by Paul Bedard. …some facts from the report from the US Council of Competitiveness and from Gallup….wages peaked in 1999. Productivity growth is at a 50-year low….since 2007 the GDP per capita growth has been 1…quoting Gallup Chairman Jim Clifton…..deterioration in the quality-to-cost ratio for healthcare, housing and education is dragging down economic growth……bottom line, when examined, the US is in a “no recovery” bubble. I hope Trump’s policies begin a kick-start in 2017. We need freedom from the weight of the federal government tax and regulate strategy the “progressives” (Leftists) yoked the American Workers with.
Lots of false logic in that and not taking into account Obama took over the Presidency during the worst recession whic yes we are still recovering from.
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Taxes are at some of the lowest in 50 years so what weight? Why do you think the deficit goes up? Just kick the guy for increasing the deficit while you are at it.
did any one of you critics of my post go and read the Paul Bedard article?…-.the reason for my disjointed sentences if that gocomics.com eliminated the normal paragraph system when they changed to “fight abuse from spammers”….-I type in normal form, but when I click on “submit” what appears in the post has been changed to run on sentences!-I do not invent what facts I post. The Bedard article quotes from 2 studies….The US Council of Competiveness….and the Gallup Chairman Jim Clifton’s writings. I think they are experts and know the economic facts.-My criticisms of Obama have never had anything to do with his ethnic status. I am a Bible believer that God created Adam with complete DNA that is in every human born on this earth. The Bible makes the claim in the New Testament that we are all “of one blood”….human blood, period, case closed!My objections have been based on Obama’s biased leftwing philosophy and his political and career record as an agitator, for the most leftwing causes. I oppose anyone doing and believing those things. I did not approve of Obama’s agenda and the Democratic bulldozing with zero GOP input or votes for the ACA…“Obamacare” that will be corrected in the near future, I hope.
Happy Two Shoes over 7 years ago
Are you twits who voted for evil liar Trump to get a job are in for a great disappointment.
Mr. Blawt over 7 years ago
Trump has promised the one person to maintain this robot will be paid handsomely while the other 20 are out of work.
lopaka over 7 years ago
The trumpster boasts about him creating thousands of jobs. What is the percentage of those jobs that are minimum wage jobs.
Lyman Elliott Premium Member over 7 years ago
This is what so many people don’t understand. Jobs that used to take many people to do are now done by 1 or perhaps 2 people monitoring the machines. A good example would be farms. Today they are massive with some farms being thousands of acres. When my mom was a girl a farm of 200 to 300 acres was considered almost too big to be worked. Another example is Amazon.com check out this video of one of their fulfillment centers at work. Almost no people but plenty of robots..https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cLVCGEmkJs0
PainterArt Premium Member over 7 years ago
Futurists and science-fiction writers have at times looked forward to machines’ workplace takeover with a kind of giddy excitement, imagining the banishment of drudgery and its replacement by expansive leisure and almost limitless personal freedom. And make no mistake: if the capabilities of computers continue to multiply while the price of computing continues to decline, that will mean a great many of life’s necessities and luxuries will become ever cheaper, and it will mean great wealth—at least when aggregated up to the level of the national economy.
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But even leaving aside questions of how to distribute that wealth, the widespread disappearance of work would usher in a social transformation unlike any we’ve seen. If John Russo is right, then saving work is more important than saving any particular job. Industriousness has served as America’s unofficial religion since its founding. The sanctity and preeminence of work lie at the heart of the country’s politics, economics, and social interactions. What might happen if work goes away?
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https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2015/07/world-without-work/395294/
kline0800 over 7 years ago
I think it is Obama that has falsely boasted about 805,000 “new jobs” in 8 years of his term In the oval office.Those are government jobs more than private sector jobs which were largely low pay and shorter hour jobs.…///…www.washingtonexaminer.com has this 12/6/16 article, “US economy: No recovery, wages in reverse” by Paul Bedard. …some facts from the report from the US Council of Competitiveness and from Gallup….wages peaked in 1999. Productivity growth is at a 50-year low….since 2007 the GDP per capita growth has been 1…quoting Gallup Chairman Jim Clifton…..deterioration in the quality-to-cost ratio for healthcare, housing and education is dragging down economic growth……bottom line, when examined, the US is in a “no recovery” bubble. I hope Trump’s policies begin a kick-start in 2017. We need freedom from the weight of the federal government tax and regulate strategy the “progressives” (Leftists) yoked the American Workers with.
PainterArt Premium Member over 7 years ago
@HopefulAmerican
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jobs_created_during_U.S._presidential_terms
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Lots of false logic in that and not taking into account Obama took over the Presidency during the worst recession whic yes we are still recovering from.
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Taxes are at some of the lowest in 50 years so what weight? Why do you think the deficit goes up? Just kick the guy for increasing the deficit while you are at it.
David Huie Green LosersBlameOthers&It'sYOURfault over 7 years ago
Nice cartoon.
No job is guaranteed.
This is a good thing.
People make poor workers — get distracted, need sleep, ade and die.
If we are completely replaced, distribution of wealth is no problem because the robots can do that too.
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Even if all hearts’ desires are satisfied, someone will continue to gripe unless they build robots to do that too.
OmqR-IV.0 over 7 years ago
It aint robots we have to worry about, it’s AI.
kline0800 over 7 years ago
did any one of you critics of my post go and read the Paul Bedard article?…-.the reason for my disjointed sentences if that gocomics.com eliminated the normal paragraph system when they changed to “fight abuse from spammers”….-I type in normal form, but when I click on “submit” what appears in the post has been changed to run on sentences!-I do not invent what facts I post. The Bedard article quotes from 2 studies….The US Council of Competiveness….and the Gallup Chairman Jim Clifton’s writings. I think they are experts and know the economic facts.-My criticisms of Obama have never had anything to do with his ethnic status. I am a Bible believer that God created Adam with complete DNA that is in every human born on this earth. The Bible makes the claim in the New Testament that we are all “of one blood”….human blood, period, case closed!My objections have been based on Obama’s biased leftwing philosophy and his political and career record as an agitator, for the most leftwing causes. I oppose anyone doing and believing those things. I did not approve of Obama’s agenda and the Democratic bulldozing with zero GOP input or votes for the ACA…“Obamacare” that will be corrected in the near future, I hope.