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Originally Posted by kane
I actually just read an article in Economist about how robots and automation will put many low wage workers out of jobs in the next 20 years and how the government better make changes to the tax system and the education system if they want to ward off some serious trouble.
Of course much of it is educated speculation, but it was still pretty interesting.
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I don't see how that can't happen. I look at my industry. Hundreds of thousands of jobs that have been replaced by technology. Not just in boring production jobs. Tool rooms today look nothing like they did 15 years ago. We turn out much higher quality tooling faster and cheaper than we ever did and we do it with fewer employees. We have a number of machine tools you press *start* at the end of the shift and come in the next morning to a completed project.
Every facet of a manufacturing business has either mastered technology or are very close to it. Things from order picking to moving goods are all happening autonomously today. Our injection molding department runs lights off. One employee per shift moves and sorts.. A setup man changes molds. And the machines just sit there and crank out cash.
