The impacts of factory's abandoning automation?

[Hellfish]

Hellos,

My brain is super activated this morning and I was thinking of how poop the world is. One of the things that would fix stuff is if we all had jobs.

Now the reason there's generally less jobs is because machines are being developed to reduce costs for hiring people to do manual work.

Now this got me thinking... if the world got so desperate for jobs would it work if the government put a ban or something on machines so all companies would be equal and have to employ people to work?

Now I know some jobs are much less efficient when performed by humans as we lack the precision and stamina of machines.

But yeah it might be childish (I'm not a child though ^-^) to think like this, but I dunno what does everyone else think?

Leave your thoughts below I guess I'd like to see what other brains think ^-^

 

[Corrie]

It's hard to say because factory work is usually disgusting and wears on your body eventually so those people would be better off with different jobs anyway. However, it's better working at a factory than being jobless.

 

[Piezahummy]

We can't.
We have adapted to how we live know.
It would be like going back to the stone age.

 

[Tao]

We can't.
We have adapted to how we live know.
It would be like going back to the stone age.

What year do you think it is exactly if having people work in factories sounds like the stone age? You do realize that factories and stuff that aren't machine automated still exist, right? There's factories that pride themselves on the amount of people they employ due to not automating things...And even heavily automated factories still need a significant workforce to keep things running...They're not entirely run by a single lonely robot, this isn't Futurama.

 

[Hellfish]

Just to clarify when I say factory's I more or less mean anything that's now run by machines, not specifically stereotypical dirty factories ^-^

Also there's still loads of people still working in places without automation so it'd hardly be a step back in terms of technology, I mean can't we work along side the machines rather then making our own labor redundant?

It'd been interesting to see your feedback though, keep it coming if you feel bored or whatever ^-^

 

[Red Cat]

I think a lot of people look at automation the wrong way. Machines exist so we don't have to do certain types of work ourselves. The more stuff machines can do, the less stuff humans have to do to live comfortably. It would be great if we could get machines to do everything and we didn't have to do anything to survive.

The problem is that while our machines are fast and precise, our governments and policy bodies are slow and inefficient and can't keep up with technological innovation. In theory, machines do all the hard labor for humans which frees our time up to do more skilled things like research, design, innovate, and teach others. The problem is that most of the wealth generated by machines goes to a small percentage of the population which creates a vacuum for everyone else. If the wealth generated by machines got spread around to pay people to do the kinds of jobs that help advance society, we wouldn't have the problem of jobs being taken away since people would have better jobs than working in a factory. Automation isn't the enemy; allowing the super-wealthy to be the only ones to reap the benefits of automation is the enemy.

 

[KaydeeKrunk]

Honestly all the machines are implementing is more people of higher education to get jobs, so I mean if we take away the automation we're taking the jobs away from them to give to blue collar workers. There just needs to be more balance if anything. Also machines are pretty awesome cause they take out the whole factor of human error which has a huge toll.

 

[Hellfish]

Maybe we augment humans with bionics so we have jobs for all ^-^

*Deus Ex anyone?*

lol

 

[Mega_Cabbage]

Well machines are faster. If machines are able to put out more products than the average human, then that probably means that the product will be less expensive to purchase.

 

[Dogemon]

People who hate automation seem to not really understand how it works in real life vs fiction. Robots can do basic, redundant tasks, which are the lowest paying jobs the majority of the time, but this allows products to indeed be cheaper. There will always be people who like to do things old-fashion, and those who prefer to be technologically advanced. I don't see why people think this really impacts jobs, because there are many things that a simple robot just cannot do even at the most basic minimum wage level job, aka they only can take on a small variety of tasks.

As others have said, people also normally have to operate the robots or atleast work on them and keep them repaired, so that is new *skilled* jobs in to make up for those self-checkout machines or automated packaging robots at storage facilities.

 

[KaydeeKrunk]

People who hate automation seem to not really understand how it works in real life vs fiction. Robots can do basic, redundant tasks, which are the lowest paying jobs the majority of the time, but this allows products to indeed be cheaper.

And you can support companies that hand make stuff, but you really do pay the price!

 

[Hellfish]

People who hate automation seem to not really understand how it works in real life vs fiction. Robots can do basic, redundant tasks, which are the lowest paying jobs the majority of the time, but this allows products to indeed be cheaper. There will always be people who like to do things old-fashion, and those who prefer to be technologically advanced. I don't see why people think this really impacts jobs, because there are many things that a simple robot just cannot do even at the most basic minimum wage level job, aka they only can take on a small variety of tasks.

As others have said, people also normally have to operate the robots or atleast work on them and keep them repaired, so that is new *skilled* jobs in to make up for those self-checkout machines or automated packaging robots at storage facilities.

I don't think anyone hates automation (well there is a minority), that's not really the point I'm trying to make in this thread. Machines can do more or less every task that doesn't require a humans "gut feeling", complex equations that factor in human emotions like how someone might feel about something, or some basic QA etc. (the list goes on).

The thing that I was trying to get at is those low wage jobs that poorer low skilled workers do is getting replaced and will continue to do so. This is inevitable and will happen, I'm not saying it's a bad thing I was only curious what would happen to the economy if everyone in the world stopped using them.

Robots are getting increasingly more advance and there is little they won't be able to do that the physical human body can already do.

Anyways enough ramblins let get back to discussing the what ifs. Also this post is more or less for fun as I was trying not too fall asleep this morning (hence the 'super' activated brain xD) so I tried thinking of random stuff!

Enjoy the thread!

 

[KaydeeKrunk]

They got to hurry up with those cooking robots. Teach them how to make chinese food and die in a week fomr obesity. The American Dream.