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Originally Posted by Minte
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 Hundreds of thousands of jobs that have been replaced by technology.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.  |
But wasn't that important because finding machinists was becoming harder and harder to find? I remember hearing it was a dying profession and the ones left were all old. What are you going to do with all those people out of work. The more things are automated, the less people needed. Got to do something with them.