In the US and the European Union we have been so afraid of illegal aliens taking away jobs that we forgot the old nemesis industrialization and robots.
I just read some ware that drones are going to be flying Fed Ex packages and UPS will follow suite, opes there goes a whole mess of pilots.
AP had a story about driverless cars in the future (Google cars I think they called them). Part of the package will be that they would be able to pick up passengers like a taxi does now. These robot or drone vehicles could be buses and trucks that, buses picking up passengers and trucks delivering goods. What in G-ds name will happen to the jobs. Yes I know that some one has to build these cars buses, trucks and smart highways and too of cause operate these highways and vehicles to make sure they are running with out a hitch. Unfortunately one does not need as many workers, especially unskilled workers.
There's been talk of most of all the manufacturing jobs that were lost coming back to the US because no matter how cheep it's done overseas robots can do it cheaper, and they don't strike or complain about unsafe conditions.
Now I know that since the beginning of the industrial revolution there has been the fear of job loss.
Industries have even died out and jobs lost but it has always seems that more jobs have been created, but as in all things in this world past histories are never quite the same and this time things may be really different.
I don't think we'll have to worry about the coming robatation in this country, you have to have a strong power grid and it's falling apart of which were too cheap to fix.
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