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Politics : The Trump Presidency -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: bentway who wrote (47488)	12/5/2017 12:23:38 PM
From: Steve Lokness	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 362341

I just don't see it that way Bentway. When I look at that picture you posted I see all the jobs those robots represent. History does not support the claim that suddenly we have entered a new paradigm and jobs will disappear. Will things be different? Of course. But when I look around and see the absolutely huge numbers of new job descriptions that didn't exist a decade or two ago - all I see is potential. The unemployment numbers do not support the claim made that all jobs will be replaced with robots or AI. We need an almost unlimited number of workers to replace our crumbling infrastructure - where has that story gone? I can imagine we could put to work 10 people today in infrastructure for every one lost to robotics. I don't mean lost to only be replaced by a robot but really lost and gone to worker heaven. This argument really has been repeated over and over by people for a very long time. The fear is always the same - but the results never match the fear.