Tweet of the Day: ROK Countryside Faces 40% Population Decline
40% of SK's countryside has collapsed from depopulation. Villages are mostly single-member households led by elderlyhttps://t.co/VQtUcl7W4h
— Noon in Korea (@AllNewsKorea) February 5, 2017
I haven’t read anything on this and my observations may not be representative but I’ve noticed more foreign national laborers working in some agricultural fields in my area. Koreans turning away from farm labor maybe creating a need for a new wave of 3D workers to do it.
It’s worked out so well for Germany, Sweden, and the US… 🙁
South Korea created a new work visa program last year that allowed migrant laborers to work in Korea, as seasonal farm workers. After each season is over, they must go back home. But in many cases, the same people will just hang around and work illegally in other industries. The number of illegals are soaring.
The Robot Revolution is coming!
The Thinking Machines will take your thinking job!
And the Working Machines will take their labor job.
Make a plan!
I’ve been saying this for years. Now they are estimating up to 50% unemployment due to jobs taken by machines.
Trucker? Cab Driver? Hit the bricks.
Shelf stocker? Burger Flipper? Your services are no longer required.
Doctor? Dentist? Attorney? Nope, machines can do most of the work, better and safer.
Snarky commenter? That will still be available, but hard to make a mortgage payment with that…
Also fighter pilots. Pilotless drones can do that. What about soldiers? Manless robots can do that as well.
It will be a while before pilotless drones can take over the fighter business. …the airliner pilot business though, is much closer.
@20 if the driverless car technology is perfected which I think eventually will be I can see at least the cab drivers out of a job. The large trucks I think the public would still want to have a human in the loop because of the consequences of a malfunction. Just like with airplanes they could be automated but I think people want to have a human in the loop because of the consequences of a malfunction.
Humans Need Not Apply:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Pq-S557XQU
Interesting take on how machines will take over.
As for the truck drivers, there is a video out there where a Mercedes-Benz or Volvo truck goes autonomous. There is a driver, but once he is out on the road, he hits a button, his seat rolls back, and the truck runs the show unless something more complex than the truck can figure out calls the driver back up. The video showed heavy traffic ahead, but it seems rather shoehorned in.
There is a meme going around about the $15 minimum wage for fast food employees, showing a touch screen computer as their replacement. In back, the Burger Flipper 3000 cranks out the sandwiches. Hilarious, until you have to figure out what those folks with minimum skills and no money or aptitude for advanced education are going to do.
The machines are coming, and I’m 15 years from retirement. Between my 20 in the Navy, 25 as a GS, TSP, and properties, I should be able to roll around on my bikes, write novels and make comments on random websites. My son is going into the robotic field, so he should have work for a while. My daughter? Well, she’s in the ganja biz now, and making bank in Colorado. As more states legalize, the “Attorney Fees Penalty” to the price of the herb will go away, turning her into a small crops farmer. I’ve seen the folks at Farmer’s Markets, they’re not exactly rolling in the cash. (I could also link the video for the Farmbot, but I’m not sure how many video links I can add.)
As for the fighter jets, there have been a few… issues. 😉
http://www.duffelblog.com/2014/02/f35-delays-sentience/
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@20 , you can leave up to 4 links before the comment goes into moderation. The truck driver example is about how I envision future automated driving, but I don’t think people or employers expect them to sleep. I envision them like a pilot monitoring the plane in autopilot to keep the human in the loop. As far as the low skilled workers losing their jobs to machines they will be just more people the government will need to take care of.
Congrats on being set up for a great retirement when it does come.