World's first self-driving taxis officially hit the road - CBS News
Some commercial drivers are going to be first on the 'hit list' -- taxi drivers and long haul truck drivers
Low skilled and low cost factory assembly labor in Asia is next on the list.
Domestic labor is too expensive in the USA and a good part of Western Europe.
High value goods that are manufactured in the USA and Western Europe will increasingly be made, where possible, with robotic automation. You don't need to pay robots mandated workers insurances and benefits -- these costs can cost an additional 40% - 60% on top of the cost of wages. Lower cost will translate to both lower cost consumer products and better corporate profits that go to shareholders as well as higher competitive wages for the jobs that remain.
Buggy whip makers are out of work.
The blacksmiths in the first and second worlds are gone.
The stablemen are no longer needed.
The are 1/3 the number of auto assemblers with left with work.
If you do not have a needed skill in the workforce you are just not needed. If the cry was for a new tax to pay for vocational education to train or retrain workers -- this might be acceptable. We still need tradesmen, repairmen and technicians if you don't have what it takes to learn a professional skill or manage a business.
Life will be pretty grim for the displaced masses who can only offer low skilled labor -- but that is not my fault;
- Why should I be assessed more taxes to pay for the inequity?
- People with lesser skills need more money so I should be taxed to pay for them.
- This new underclass does not want to learn (or have the ability to learn) the needed job skills
- So, I should work hard with my hard learned skills to pay for their inabilities or unwillingness?
That is a fool's argument -- no wonder they can't make it.
I may have to pay for their very minimal existence -- as minimal as needed to keep them in barracks to be used as cheap labor for their subsistence if they want to consider themselves worthy to participate in society. $400/mo, a bunk in a barracks, work to better themselves of this will be their lot in life.
I have had to acquire new job skills ever 4 times in my 40 years of working -- I kept myself competitive. There are not many jobs left with 30 and out and you get a good pension. Life is a bitch then you die, and usually not with much dignity these days -- that's just the fuckin' way it it -- so man up and deal with it.
No, I don't have any silly charts to try to prop up a unworkable (pun intended) position. No one owes me a lifestyle. Those marginal workers are not my customers and the majority of my customers will benefit financially from increasing automation and expanding robotics. They will make more money to spend. They will have more disposable income they can use buying cam shows -- one of the few jobs left that does not require a technical degree -- the world keeps turning -- life goes on