Does somebody know what types of task are "losing out to automation" or where the "long term legacy contracts" left to ?
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Made redundant by automation, tech workers in India are embracing online therapy
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#12Every time I hear/read about automation, all I can think about is the movie "Her".
Humans are weak and companies are just waiting to exploit that.
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#13Does somebody know what types of task are "losing out to automation" or where the "long term legacy contracts" left to ? EDIT : typo
Primarily IT support.
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#14I think it's sad how we are getting further and further away from genuine human interaction. I guess we can't afford each other anymore.
That's arguable. Digital platforms are both facilitating and changing human interaction - for both better and worse.
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#15Most of these tech workers are too lazy to keep up with what’s going on or learn new skills, and their compensation is out of proportion to their usefulness. Their employers are no different. Both are always haunted by the fear of being made redundant by their clients. They suffer from aversion to change. As a matter of fact, the automation that the article says has taken the place of these workers should have happened long ago. Given a folder of thousands of files, tasked with deleting every 10th file in it, I would rather write a couple lines of code that does the job for me. Who wouldn’t approve of automating such jobs?
One of Henry Ford’s quotes comes to mind: anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty.
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#16"People accustomed to holding down prestigious jobs and pulling in handsome salaries are losing out to automation, a shift away from long-term legacy contracts and curbs on U.S. work visas."
It's funny, in the US when jobs get outsourced, robots get blamed.
In India, when jobs get insourced back, robots get blamed.
The key takeaway seems to be never, ever, ever blame trade policy made by a politician/lobbyist if you can shift it to robots made by an engineer.
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#17Every time I hear/read about automation, all I can think about is the movie "Her". Humans are weak and companies are just waiting to exploit that.
The problem is ... unless there's a universal income, or new jobs for all these people, who in the hell is going to buy your products?
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#18Most of these tech workers are too lazy to keep up with what’s going on or learn new skills, and their compensation is out of proportion to their usefulness. Their employers are no different. Both are always haunted by the fear of being made redundant by their clients. They suffer from aversion to change. As a matter of fact, the automation that the article says has taken the place of these workers should have happen…
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#19Most of these tech workers are too lazy to keep up with what’s going on or learn new skills, and their compensation is out of proportion to their usefulness. Their employers are no different. Both are always haunted by the fear of being made redundant by their clients. They suffer from aversion to change. As a matter of fact, the automation that the article says has taken the place of these workers should have happen…
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#20I think it's sad how we are getting further and further away from genuine human interaction. I guess we can't afford each other anymore.
That's arguable. Digital platforms are both facilitating and changing human interaction - for both better and worse.
But mostly, between echo chambers, fake news, cyber-bullying, shallow social media, etc, for worse.