01-18-2024, 01:15 PM
(01-18-2024, 05:21 AM)NATI BENGALS Wrote: 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
I don't know that you're appreciating the scope of the jobs that will be lost due to AI and further automation. I cited truck drivers for a reason, as it's a massive blue collar job sector.
https://www.census.gov/library/stories/2019/06/america-keeps-on-trucking.html
There are more than 3.5 million truckers in the US. In just that one industry alone you're talking a catastrophic loss of jobs. Basically any job that doesn't rely heavily on human judgment, e.g. criminal justice jobs, is on the table as far as going bye bye. I wholeheartedly agree with you. it would be great if we could return to the single worker family that can afford to buy a house and live a modest life. But those days are gone, both political parties sold us out to cheap foreign, sometimes slave, labor. What's coming is going to be decidedly unpleasant.
