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    • momurdaM
      momurda @PenguinWrangler
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      @penguinwrangler said in Discussing Basic Income from Forbes Article:

      @scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:

      Taxes are similar. Tax reporting could be standardized and made automatic. Tell the government your details, pay your taxes. Same for everyone. But that would destroy an industry. So they don't, they make taxes convoluted so that people essentially have to either buy software or pay accountants to do work that shouldn't exist. It's all busy work just to create jobs.

      Sure there are industries that will fade away, happens all the time. To think that the economy won't come up with jobs that don't even exist right now to fill the void is a little ludicrous. I mean Information Technology didn't exist when my parents were in school.

      This is wrong; starting in a few years when automation takes over everything. I dont think you understand the scale of the next round of automation in the workplace. 19/20 jobs driving, gone. That is millions of jobs just in the US. Fast food workers, gone in ten years. You arent replacing hundreds of millions of trucking and McDs and other manufacturing jobs with 'robot repairman' jobs. Especially since the robots will likely be throwaway cheap disposable like ipads and cell phones.
      Like you say, many of these types of people dont want to learn anything, ever, like your dad(your words). Youd rather have those people starving in the streets with no income and no home?

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      • ObsolesceO
        Obsolesce @momurda
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        @momurda said in Discussing Basic Income from Forbes Article:

        This is wrong; starting in a few years when automation takes over everything. I dont think you understand the scale of the next round of automation in the workplace. 19/20 jobs driving, gone.

        Automation doesn't "take jobs". It provides more jobs, actually.

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        • scottalanmillerS
          scottalanmiller @Obsolesce
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          @obsolesce said in Discussing Basic Income from Forbes Article:

          @momurda said in Discussing Basic Income from Forbes Article:

          This is wrong; starting in a few years when automation takes over everything. I dont think you understand the scale of the next round of automation in the workplace. 19/20 jobs driving, gone.

          Automation doesn't "take jobs". It provides more jobs, actually.

          That's not so much automation and shifting. Good automation does replace jobs. It just frees up resources which, one hopes in the current system, are used to create more jobs.

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          • DustinB3403D
            DustinB3403 @Obsolesce
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            @obsolesce said in Discussing Basic Income from Forbes Article:

            @momurda said in Discussing Basic Income from Forbes Article:

            This is wrong; starting in a few years when automation takes over everything. I dont think you understand the scale of the next round of automation in the workplace. 19/20 jobs driving, gone.

            Automation doesn't "take jobs". It provides more jobs, actually.

            How's the line go. . .

            HTisMpC.jpg

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            • coliverC
              coliver @Obsolesce
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              @obsolesce said in Discussing Basic Income from Forbes Article:

              @momurda said in Discussing Basic Income from Forbes Article:

              This is wrong; starting in a few years when automation takes over everything. I dont think you understand the scale of the next round of automation in the workplace. 19/20 jobs driving, gone.

              Automation doesn't "take jobs". It provides more jobs, actually.

              That's not really true anymore. NYT had a big article on this when I was in college. Basically we hit the threshold in that year where automation was replacing more jobs then it was creating.

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              • momurdaM
                momurda @Obsolesce
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                @obsolesce said in Discussing Basic Income from Forbes Article:

                @momurda said in Discussing Basic Income from Forbes Article:

                This is wrong; starting in a few years when automation takes over everything. I dont think you understand the scale of the next round of automation in the workplace. 19/20 jobs driving, gone.

                Automation doesn't "take jobs". It provides more jobs, actually.

                Explain what the 25 people working at your local McDonalds will be doing in 10 years when a couple robot burger flippers replace their entire work crew.

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                • DustinB3403D
                  DustinB3403 @momurda
                  last edited by DustinB3403

                  @momurda said in Discussing Basic Income from Forbes Article:

                  @obsolesce said in Discussing Basic Income from Forbes Article:

                  @momurda said in Discussing Basic Income from Forbes Article:

                  This is wrong; starting in a few years when automation takes over everything. I dont think you understand the scale of the next round of automation in the workplace. 19/20 jobs driving, gone.

                  Automation doesn't "take jobs". It provides more jobs, actually.

                  Explain what the 25 people working at your local McDonalds will be doing in 10 years when a couple robot burger flippers replace their entire work crew.

                  Japan already has these.

                  Youtube Video

                  And quite honestly, I'd like to have a robot finish the burger as well . . I've seen their bathrooms, one can guess at their habits in said bathroom.

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                  • coliverC
                    coliver @DustinB3403
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                    @dustinb3403 said in Discussing Basic Income from Forbes Article:

                    @momurda said in Discussing Basic Income from Forbes Article:

                    @obsolesce said in Discussing Basic Income from Forbes Article:

                    @momurda said in Discussing Basic Income from Forbes Article:

                    This is wrong; starting in a few years when automation takes over everything. I dont think you understand the scale of the next round of automation in the workplace. 19/20 jobs driving, gone.

                    Automation doesn't "take jobs". It provides more jobs, actually.

                    Explain what the 25 people working at your local McDonalds will be doing in 10 years when a couple robot burger flippers replace their entire work crew.

                    Japan already has these.

                    Youtube Video

                    IIRC McD's was doing some experiments with the employee-less franchise not too long ago.

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                    • scottalanmillerS
                      scottalanmiller @momurda
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                      @momurda said in Discussing Basic Income from Forbes Article:

                      @obsolesce said in Discussing Basic Income from Forbes Article:

                      @momurda said in Discussing Basic Income from Forbes Article:

                      This is wrong; starting in a few years when automation takes over everything. I dont think you understand the scale of the next round of automation in the workplace. 19/20 jobs driving, gone.

                      Automation doesn't "take jobs". It provides more jobs, actually.

                      Explain what the 25 people working at your local McDonalds will be doing in 10 years when a couple robot burger flippers replace their entire work crew.

                      I proposed that for fast food in the mid-1990s. Already at that point, it was SO automated already. The humans were working as robots, for all intents and purposes.

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                      • DustinB3403D
                        DustinB3403 @scottalanmiller
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                        @scottalanmiller said in Discussing Basic Income from Forbes Article:

                        @momurda said in Discussing Basic Income from Forbes Article:

                        @obsolesce said in Discussing Basic Income from Forbes Article:

                        @momurda said in Discussing Basic Income from Forbes Article:

                        This is wrong; starting in a few years when automation takes over everything. I dont think you understand the scale of the next round of automation in the workplace. 19/20 jobs driving, gone.

                        Automation doesn't "take jobs". It provides more jobs, actually.

                        Explain what the 25 people working at your local McDonalds will be doing in 10 years when a couple robot burger flippers replace their entire work crew.

                        I proposed that for fast food in the mid-1990s. Already at that point, it was SO automated already. The humans were working as robots, for all intents and purposes.

                        Except you don't get the special sauce without a pissed off human. .

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                        • scottalanmillerS
                          scottalanmiller @DustinB3403
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                          @dustinb3403 and I've used the automated cashier stores and I must say, I LOVE going to the McD's that are heavily automated. They are SO nice. Clean, efficient, simple.

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                          • ObsolesceO
                            Obsolesce @coliver
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                            @coliver said in Discussing Basic Income from Forbes Article:

                            @obsolesce said in Discussing Basic Income from Forbes Article:

                            @momurda said in Discussing Basic Income from Forbes Article:

                            This is wrong; starting in a few years when automation takes over everything. I dont think you understand the scale of the next round of automation in the workplace. 19/20 jobs driving, gone.

                            Automation doesn't "take jobs". It provides more jobs, actually.

                            That's not really true anymore. NYT had a big article on this when I was in college. Basically we hit the threshold in that year where automation was replacing more jobs then it was creating.

                            My line of thought came from this video:

                            Youtube Video

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                            • coliverC
                              coliver @Obsolesce
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                              @obsolesce said in Discussing Basic Income from Forbes Article:

                              @coliver said in Discussing Basic Income from Forbes Article:

                              @obsolesce said in Discussing Basic Income from Forbes Article:

                              @momurda said in Discussing Basic Income from Forbes Article:

                              This is wrong; starting in a few years when automation takes over everything. I dont think you understand the scale of the next round of automation in the workplace. 19/20 jobs driving, gone.

                              Automation doesn't "take jobs". It provides more jobs, actually.

                              That's not really true anymore. NYT had a big article on this when I was in college. Basically we hit the threshold in that year where automation was replacing more jobs then it was creating.

                              My line of thought came from this video:

                              Youtube Video

                              Automation does create jobs. Ones that are often much hiring paying then the ones they replace. But the rate of it doesn't out pace the jobs lost to automaton at this point. I didn't watch the video just surmised the content from the title.

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                              • scottalanmillerS
                                scottalanmiller @Obsolesce
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                                @obsolesce I don't know about big level numbers. But it's certainly true that automation takes X jobs. And automation creates Y jobs. In theory, the goal is to remove many low paying X jobs and replace them with higher paying, but fewer Y jobs. If the Y number is too high, no one would automate. The benefit to automation is that the total cost of the overall system is lower.

                                Automation isn't free, so the cost of the people has to be reduced enough to more than cover the equipment.

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                                • ObsolesceO
                                  Obsolesce
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                                  Automation is better in general. It advances society in more ways than just "automation". It requires tech inventions and innovation, pushes society to greater heights and strengthens it significantly. Why do you think Europe and other areas are much more technically advanced than the U.S., happier, healthier, etc.?

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                                  • jmooreJ
                                    jmoore @PenguinWrangler
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                                    @penguinwrangler I mostly agree with that. We have a welding department here where people routinely don't finish because they already found a job paying 50k-70k. The director and I are friends and he tells me about it. I made more money logging in KY than I made anywhere else, including IT. I have a friend who was a teacher that went into his local hvac program and now makes 60k a year after he graduated and found a job. So it seems like jobs are bs if you have to actually work. Thats my take away

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                                    • PenguinWranglerP
                                      PenguinWrangler
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                                      @momurda said in Discussing Basic Income from Forbes Article:

                                      @penguinwrangler said in Discussing Basic Income from Forbes Article:

                                      @scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:

                                      Taxes are similar. Tax reporting could be standardized and made automatic. Tell the government your details, pay your taxes. Same for everyone. But that would destroy an industry. So they don't, they make taxes convoluted so that people essentially have to either buy software or pay accountants to do work that shouldn't exist. It's all busy work just to create jobs.

                                      Sure there are industries that will fade away, happens all the time. To think that the economy won't come up with jobs that don't even exist right now to fill the void is a little ludicrous. I mean Information Technology didn't exist when my parents were in school.

                                      This is wrong; starting in a few years when automation takes over everything. I dont think you understand the scale of the next round of automation in the workplace. 19/20 jobs driving, gone. That is millions of jobs just in the US. Fast food workers, gone in ten years. You arent replacing hundreds of millions of trucking and McDs and other manufacturing jobs with 'robot repairman' jobs. Especially since the robots will likely be throwaway cheap disposable like ipads and cell phones.
                                      Like you say, many of these types of people dont want to learn anything, ever, like your dad(your words). Youd rather have those people starving in the streets with no income and no home?

                                      Never said my Dad didn't want to learn anything, he just didn't want to go to college and learn in that way. Honestly, I could probably quit my job now and make handmade furniture that is beautiful and make as much money as I make now. Which would be something that won't be replaced by automation because it is an art form. From which my Dad taught me how to do.

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                                      • scottalanmillerS
                                        scottalanmiller @jmoore
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                                        @jmoore said in Discussing Basic Income from Forbes Article:

                                        @penguinwrangler I mostly agree with that. We have a welding department here where people routinely don't finish because they already found a job paying 50k-70k. The director and I are friends and he tells me about it. I made more money logging in KY than I made anywhere else, including IT. I have a friend who was a teacher that went into his local hvac program and now makes 60k a year after he graduated and found a job. So it seems like jobs are bs if you have to actually work. Thats my take away

                                        A lot comes down to who is willing to do it. I don't want to be logging, but I do want to work in IT. So you'd have to pay me more to be logging. I'd rather teach than do HVAC, so you'd have to pay me more to do HVAC. That market prices are what they are suggests that lots of other people agree with my preferences.

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                                        • scottalanmillerS
                                          scottalanmiller
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                                          That and logging cuts of digits way more often than IT.

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                                          • PenguinWranglerP
                                            PenguinWrangler
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                                            So how much a year are we talking about? How much would everyone get? What are the general numbers people suggest?

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