01-18-2024, 05:21 AM
(01-16-2024, 02:23 PM)Sociopathicsteelerfan Wrote: I've been arguing for years on this board that a second "industrial revolution" was imminent and that the loss of jobs would be equal, or worse than it was then. I frequently cited truck drivers, a huge employment sector, as being on the block for automation. This is also why I've consistently argued against the "we need immigrants to do these jobs" justification for mass immigration. Much sooner than we'd like to think the job pool is going to shrink and the mass importation of unskilled to semi-skilled laborers is going to be a millstone around our necks.
It would be nice if it went back to one person working an average every day job being able to afford a decent living with a car, house, and family. I feel like those types of family situations are few and far between. If they made a come back maybe it would ease what could potentially become an over crowded labor market. But that still probably won't be enough. I think we can become so efficient at producing goods with smarter better machines while robots take over service jobs I just don't see how that ends with everyone happy and gainfully employed.
Then again there could be the need for plenty of manual labor.
https://www.reuters.com/markets/commodities/crop-killing-weeds-advance-across-us-farmland-chemicals-lose-effectiveness-2024-01-16/
Or maybe not
