Originally Posted by Barry-xlovecam

If you are an unskilled worker: get an education or you will be getting an EBT card in your future. (On the dole or soylent green). There is even pressure on a lot of traditional skilled trades. Learn computer skills like AI and network engineering or API coding disciplines if you want a good future in 10 or 20 years. Or, move to the third world where laborers will still be used in the fields and live in a hut.

The writing is on the wall ... And it has been for over 10 years.

Retail physical bricks and mortar outlets will be 70% to 85% automated. The shelves will be stocked by robotics and there will be AI consoles where you can ask what isle the sugar is in. The checkout lines will be self serve and every 6 check out lines will be supervised (policed) by a human. There will be few jobs at places like Walmart. Places like Amazon are starting to do these things now and with 20% of the physical facilities Amazon has surpassed Walmart this quarter in revenues. The writing is on the wall ...

Those retail and fast food jobs won't exist in 10 or 20 years -- it is a dead end.

It would not take much for a drive in lane at the fast food joint to have an AI console take your order and the robotic hamburger flipper cook your order. A machine will take you money and your ratburger meal will exit from a chute -- there may be 3 humans: a technician/mechanic to attend to the machinery, a customer assistance person and a supervisor on each shift -- no grunt workers making minimum wages ... Machines are more cost effective and are never late for work or sick you just need a tech to tend to their mechanical needs ...

Ronald Robotic McDonalds ...