UKtramp:
IronEddie:
I don’t think anyone doubts the tech is being developed. I disagree with those who think it will take over completely. I don’t think that will happen in my lifetime.As much as anything else people are only just starting to think about the huge social and political ramifications of the mass unemployment widespread automation will cause. I think I read that this year the UN set up its first full time office to research the impact of automation. Amongst other things being considered was the idea of governments imposing a quota of human employees a business would have to have.
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You have an opinion that is from the dark ages. In the last 50 years we have gone from mechanised to computerised, from computerised to automation, this is just another step from the technology that has been developed now be put into use of vehicles. Mass unemployment is what we already have so nothing new there. People will go into other employment like the miners had to do and all the other workers who have been affected by automation. You only have to look at how we have gone from two way radio to wired telephones and then the smart phones we have today in a very short period.
The predictions for automation is way bigger than what’s happened in the last 50 years, there are predictions of between 30% to 47% of jobs at risk of automation and these aren’t just manual low skilled jobs, they include many middle management jobs, jobs in the financial sector, IT sector the list is endless. During the recession of the 1980’s the official unemployment was around the 3 million mark about 12% of the working population.
You say like the last 50 years of de-industrilisation new jobs will be created, this might be true, but look at the type of jobs that have been created, but for many the well paid secure jobs have been replaced by low paid jobs without the security,
Found this while looking round the internet.
A study found that most MG Rover workers found new jobs in the service industry…
… but they were paid £5,640 ($8,911) less a year.
And throughout the developed economies in the World wages have stagnated in real terms for most people, but the gap between the richest and poorest has increased.
If you look back at history it seems obvious as that in the developed economies, we are building a bonfire with all the components for major civil unrest and revolution, all it needs to go up is the spark, something like heavy handed government, such as happened in Barcelona a couple of weeks ago, might be all it takes.