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Considering many people who design and develop the tech for robots in the UK are migrants, i don't think this strategy will fare particularly well
Considering many people who design and develop the tech for robots in the UK are migrants, i don't think this strategy will fare particularly well
If I understand UK visa rules correctly, getting a work permit as someone who designs or develops tech for robots is as easy as getting a job offer from a company that wants you to design or develop tech for robots for them.
They don't take up space in housing but they don't pay tax either
The problem with having robots do this kind of work is that the majority don't integrate well: they don't learn English, they don't drink in pubs and they have their own schools.
I am sure if we try enough we can integrate robot society into our society. Little William can go to school with little Robby and they can be best friends, until one day when Robby tries to give William a hug inadvertently killing him. Then I believe there will be a real backlash against robot society.
I'm lucky in that case. Robots dont look so good wearing stilleto's. So I will not be replaced.
Clickbait title keyed to feed our current robot fears. Should at least have the qualifier " for low skilled jobs in the manufacturing sector"
For most of the people whose main reason for voting for Brexit was immigration's effects on jobs, these are the jobs that they seem the immigrants as competition for.
The theory is that the immigrants were willing to work for less so "stole" the menial, mind-numbing, often physical, & sometimes seasonal jobs. Having a number of such complainers in my family and otherwise in ear-shot I'd say the issue for many employers is not "being willing to work for less" but more "being willing to work to much of a standard at any price", but I digress... If the robots work out cheaper over a short enough amount of time (allowing for the large up-front investment in both the robots directly and any changes needed to make the environment one that can be efficient in) then it is logical that businesses will let them "steal" the jobs instead of accepting that they'll have to pay local workers more.
> keyed to feed our current robot fears
This isn't the first article to cover the possibility. I've been reading the headlines, particularly those in the UK press, as more a poke at the people who voted for leaving mainly due to the jobs issue - a message of "not what you wanted, eh?, don't say we didn't tell you...".
The problem with having robots do this kind of work is that the majority don't integrate well: they don't learn English, they don't drink in pubs and they have their own schools.