America needs to roboticize & reindustrialize

What are they going to do with all their people? Cull the herd?

We saw where the biggest resistance to automation is coming from during last year's port worker strike: unions.

Increased automation is an inevitable as tech advances bring automation costs down while wages continue to increase, but the unions are going to continue to fight it even if it allows other countries to leapfrog us in production and advances.

As you put more and more people out of a job, who do these businesses expect to buy their products/services. Are we heading to universal income?

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One child policy already did that a good bit

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This is a good call out. What’s going on in China is happening for very different reasons because their working population is rapidly shrinking.

They’re trying to replace productivity of people they know won’t exist in a generation.

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As you put more and more people out of a job, who do these businesses expect to buy their products/services.

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They will have to do just as wagon makers did when the internal combustion engine was refined enough to begin replacing horse-and-buggy conveyance with motor vehicles: the move to another industry. The real problem is that we have an astonishingly large number of people who either don't have the ability to work jobs above the low-skill or no-skill level or live within a culture where not even trying to rise above that is discouraged. A big part of countering that discouragement aspect is to bring shame back to being a slack-arse (Tammii-Sue in the meth park or N'yquillia in the ghetto who see their only job in life as popping out more future Section 8 recipients) and encouraging success.

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Are we heading to universal income?

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I hope not. We saw the impact of just sniffing that shitpot with the inflation from the COVID stimmy checks. Giving that steroids would be a quick ticket to a complete crash of the world economy.

I'm not worried about the Chinese. They've had the most actual people there and still couldn't take over the world. They are dumb.

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So few people are worried about the impact to people in the name of making shite more efficient

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It's a race to the bottom.

Few companies are racing to make basic human lives better with automation, just create an object that boosts the bottomline for the board.


Income is outpacing prices to the bottom.

I think we need to get out of the mindset of economic gains at all costs. People can’t afford a home and land, and illegals are undercutting our labor force. Idgaf about China and their robots. The only thing keeping China afloat is the one thing they cannot afford to lose. We shouldn’t make the same mistake and hedge all our bets on automation and technology.

We need to get rid of our entitlement state and become self sufficient again, regain the honor in work again that our forbears had.