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Just my $0.02.
Touchscreens have replaced lots of human jobs. Self checkouts have replaced lots of human jobs. I worked in one of the very first grocery stores to have a self checkout added. They told us it wouldnt affect our jobs. If you go into any grocery store in the country you will see ~25% staffing compared to the late 90s/early 2000s. If you are askibg this question you are just too young to have noticed, or perhaps of a so…
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Yes, only robot is a LCD touch screen that replaced the cashier. But what about the robot burger flipping machines. I have yet to see or hear any. Something like these: https://www.latimes.com/business/technology/story/2020-02-27...
https://hotair.com/john-s-2/2022/06/16/flippy-the-robot-is-s...
Look at real wages of the working class since then, vs productivity. Workers keep generating more profits, and don't get more pay.
Automation destroy jobs, but others are created.
The belief in job stealing robots is mostly tech bro lore and not based in science nor empirical observation.
Touchscreens have replaced lots of human jobs. Self checkouts have replaced lots of human jobs. I worked in one of the very first grocery stores to have a self checkout added. They told us it wouldnt affect our jobs. If you go into any grocery store in the country you will see ~25% staffing compared to the late 90s/early 2000s. If you are askibg this question you are just too young to have noticed, or perhaps of a so…
But they're not robots - they've just outsourced the checkout job to the customer and made it so they require minimal training. Technology has made this easier, but it's not robotics.
It's still coming, the biggest impact will be in self driving trucks and commercial vehicles, next to that it will be in heavy equipment operation, farming, etc. And then in healthcare, etc.