American truck drivers could lose their jobs to robots

Post by nickthemagicman » Sun, Aug 07, 2016, 11:28 PM UTC

tuna-piano wrote: post #6

The other question you need to ask in order to understand this future scenerio:. Shipping costs will significantly decrease, what will consumers and shareholders spend the extra money on? Who knows what they will spend the extra money on, could be healthcare, boats, TVs, whatever. But new jobs will be created in these expanded industries. It really, really bothers me the constant "x technology will drive x people out…

Post by spectrum1234 » Sun, Aug 07, 2016, 11:32 PM UTC

internaut wrote: post #52

WillPostForFood wrote: post #29

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7% cheaper, repeated over and over is meaningful. 1n 1900, people had to spend 43% of their income on food, now it is 13%. They spent 12% of their income on clothing, now it is 4%. Basic goods getting cheaper particularly helps poorer people. http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2012/04/how-amer...

Food has become more expensive recently. Basic materials e.g. timber, nails, screws, stuff you use to build houses, have all become more expensive recently, despite a dramatic decline in house production (in my country at least). Seems like few people are talking about this and it really annoys me. No, things are not getting better and better. Many trends are going into reverse but are not being talked about. They we…

Post by jotux » Sun, Aug 07, 2016, 11:35 PM UTC

karma_vaccum123 wrote: post #58

tuna-piano wrote: post #6

The other question you need to ask in order to understand this future scenerio:. Shipping costs will significantly decrease, what will consumers and shareholders spend the extra money on? Who knows what they will spend the extra money on, could be healthcare, boats, TVs, whatever. But new jobs will be created in these expanded industries. It really, really bothers me the constant "x technology will drive x people out…

Drivers are cheap. Eliminating them won't yield much. Improved safety will be the biggest gain The article cites $40k average pay per driver. That's fast-food wages

Post by brianwawok » Sun, Aug 07, 2016, 11:40 PM UTC

sverige wrote: post #62

pdkl95 wrote: post #56

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Farming and other types of automation that put people out of work in the past used technology to amplify and/or replace physical labor. Now we are learning how to use the general purpose computer to replace mental labor. These are different types of automation that will have fundamentally different effects on society. While we have many examples of new technology replacing physical labor, automation of mental labor i…

>Assuming this was even possible and assuming there will be jobs for all of these new programmers/etc, is this retraining cheaper than UBI or other plans? That's assuming that programming won't be one of the first categories of jobs to be automated away by AI. Think of the cost savings! But thankfully we don't have to worry about what all those poor programmers are going to do since it's progress for humanity.

Post by internaut » Sun, Aug 07, 2016, 11:41 PM UTC

spectrum1234 wrote: post #73

internaut wrote: post #52

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Food has become more expensive recently. Basic materials e.g. timber, nails, screws, stuff you use to build houses, have all become more expensive recently, despite a dramatic decline in house production (in my country at least). Seems like few people are talking about this and it really annoys me. No, things are not getting better and better. Many trends are going into reverse but are not being talked about. They we…

Your timeframe is way too short. You are cherry picking.