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Originally Posted by leebase
Well...except all the skilled jobs that are replaced by automation into unskilled jobs. Used to be that "making" took a craftsman. With the advent of the assembly line and other automation, making turned into low skilled factory work.
Then automation went on to start replacing those low skiled jobs that were created by automation in the first place.
Creative destruction. We can only hope it keeps being balanced out by job innovation. Just because it always has, doesn't mean it always will.
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Well..
Most of the jobs robots are destroying *are* simple, repetitive, and manual.
Totally unskilled. It will get worse over the next decade as robots expanding their presence in agriculture to picking fruits and vegetables.
But the replacement jobs tend to be technical, require skill/experience, and more than just a high school diploma/attendance certificate. Typically a two year degree at a community college or tech institute will do. Look around, the shortage of mechanics and technicians in all fields is massive.
(Tons of resesrch papers out there documenting the issue, which is global: US, Australia, Europe being just some. Most are dense pdfs, but this isn't:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4287920/)
There is no surplus of skilled workers but there is a surplus of the unskilled, with more popping up everyday.
That is the real problem.
A century ago during the transition from an agrarian to an industrial society spawned the mandatory public school system to enable the trandition. Kids were trained to navigate an industrial society and to fit into assembly lines.
Today's educational system isn't enabling the new transition to a techno!ogical society. If anything it is hindering it by its lack of proper guidance studies. Which is how we already have a massive mismatch between workforce needs and unemployed skills and government at all levels, local to federal is doing zilch. Some companies have resorted to training programs to grow their oen but many find it cheaper to headhunt.
The workers are there; they are neither stupid, lazy, or unmotivated. But the options to get the proper graining are limited and pricey. And the politicians' answer, instead of facilitating training, is to bad-mouth technology, pro.ote taxing robots, and give money for free.
Technology isn't the problem.
Workers aren't the problem.
It's the politicians and those who vote for them.
Neither banning robots nor throwing money will solve tbis problem because it is structural to the education system.