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Robots were supposed to take our jobs. Instead, they’re making them worse.
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<blockquote data-quote="cheryl" data-source="post: 2884" data-attributes="member: 1"><p><a href="https://www.vox.com/the-goods/22557895/automation-robots-work-amazon-uber-lyft" target="_blank"><strong>Robots were supposed to take our jobs. Instead, they’re making them worse. - Vox</strong></a></p><p></p><p><strong>The robot apocalypse is already here, it just looks different than you thought.</strong></p><p></p><p>The robot revolution is always allegedly just around the corner. In the utopian vision, technology emancipates human labor from repetitive, mundane tasks, freeing us to be more productive and take on more fulfilling work. In the dystopian vision, robots come for everyone’s jobs, put millions and millions of people out of work, and throw the economy into chaos.</p><p></p><p>Such a warning was <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/10/technology/his-2020-campaign-message-the-robots-are-coming.html" target="_blank">at the crux</a> of Andrew Yang’s ill-fated presidential campaign, helping propel his case for universal basic income that he argued would become necessary when automation left so many workers out. It’s the argument many <a href="https://www.foxbusiness.com/technology/former-mcdonalds-ceo-15-minimum-wage-automation" target="_blank">corporate executives make</a> whenever there’s a suggestion they might have to raise wages: $15 an hour will just mean machines taking your order at McDonald’s instead of people, they say. It’s an effective scare tactic for some workers.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="cheryl, post: 2884, member: 1"] [URL='https://www.vox.com/the-goods/22557895/automation-robots-work-amazon-uber-lyft'][B]Robots were supposed to take our jobs. Instead, they’re making them worse. - Vox[/B][/URL] [B]The robot apocalypse is already here, it just looks different than you thought.[/B] The robot revolution is always allegedly just around the corner. In the utopian vision, technology emancipates human labor from repetitive, mundane tasks, freeing us to be more productive and take on more fulfilling work. In the dystopian vision, robots come for everyone’s jobs, put millions and millions of people out of work, and throw the economy into chaos. Such a warning was [URL='https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/10/technology/his-2020-campaign-message-the-robots-are-coming.html']at the crux[/URL] of Andrew Yang’s ill-fated presidential campaign, helping propel his case for universal basic income that he argued would become necessary when automation left so many workers out. It’s the argument many [URL='https://www.foxbusiness.com/technology/former-mcdonalds-ceo-15-minimum-wage-automation']corporate executives make[/URL] whenever there’s a suggestion they might have to raise wages: $15 an hour will just mean machines taking your order at McDonald’s instead of people, they say. It’s an effective scare tactic for some workers. [/QUOTE]
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