Professionals and Managers: You’re Next
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An interesting look at the coming of robotics and what it will do to the professional and managerial class. In the past "creative destruction" affected the blue collar class for the most part. Not this time, and that's going to be a big difference.
Professionals and Managers: You’re Next
Here’s the dirty little secret about automation: it’s easier to build a robot to replace a junior attorney than to replace a journeyman electrician. And that fact helps explain why economists and politicians are feeling misgivings about “creative destruction,” which, up to now, they have usually embraced as a net good for society. Technology and automation, they’ve argued—correctly—boost productivity and create more jobs overall (even as some kinds of work get eradicated).
In the age of the algorithm, though, they’re not so sure any more, and no wonder: instead of creative destruction coming to factories and farms, it’s sweeping through city centers and taking white-collar jobs. The chattering classes have talked and written for years about the “end of work.” Doubtless many fear that the end of their work is in the offing, this time around.
https://www.city-journal.org/html/professionals-and-managers-youre-next-...
My daughter is starting college this fall. My greatest advice to her is to pick a profession that can't be done by a computer. She'll be an Animal Science major and that is apparently a field with a lot of possibilities but the way things are going who really knows?
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Robots Don't Need Health
Robots Don't Need Health Insurance or a Retirement Pension
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Dude, they all break.
Dude, they all break.
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A commentary of the issue....
A commentary of the issue....
When Americans do finally grasp what automation is doing to their prospects, rage against the machines (or, more specifically, their consequences) will blend with existing discontent to form a highly inflammable mix. This broader economic unease is already spreading beyond left-behinds and Millennials, but when we reach the point where even those who are still doing well see robots sending proletarianization their way, there’s a decent chance that something akin to “middle-class panic” (a phenomenon identified by sociologist Theodor Geiger in, ominously, 1930s Germany) will ensue. Many of the best and brightest will face a stark loss of economic and social status, a blow that will sting far more than the humdrum hopelessness that many at the bottom of the pile have, sadly, long learned to accept. They will resist while they still have the clout to do so, and the media, filled with intelligent people who have already found themselves on the wrong side of technology, will have their back…
Every revolution, whether at the polling station or on the street, needs foot soldiers drawn from the poor and the “left behind.” Still, it’s the leadership that counts. Add the impact of automation to the effects of existing elite overproduction and the result will be that the upheaval to come will be steered by a very large “officer class” — angry, effective, efficient, a “counter-elite”…looking to transform the social order of which, under happier circumstances, it would have been a mainstay.
https://www.nationalreview.com/magazine/2016-08-29-0100/robots-stealing-...
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robots will be 3D printing
robots will be 3D printing themselves.
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I was a prototype manual
I was a prototype manual machinist/tool die and mold maker for twenty five years. Automation killed that trade. Of course I could have made the transition to programming but I resisted.
Automation is killing jobs in my current trade also.
just gotta be smart and stay up with the progress and keep up the ongoing continuing educations.
Good luck to your daughter, Thom.
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