Half of all US jobs could be replaced by machines

[rdean]

Nearly Half Of US Jobs Could Be Replaced By Machines

Forty-seven percent of U.S. workers face a risk of automation. Not all cities share equal risk, however. Fresno, California, takes the top spot, with 53.8 percent exposed to automation, followed closely by Las Vegas and Greensboro, Alabama. For cities with the lowest risk, Boston and Washington D.C. tie with 38.4 percent.

The study also included a survey of Citigroup’s institutional clients that found 70 percent believe the falling costs of automation and other technologies will encourage reshoring.
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This is why we need a Democratic President. The country needs education. Only Democrats support education.

 

[Geaux4it]

Nearly Half Of US Jobs Could Be Replaced By Machines

Forty-seven percent of U.S. workers face a risk of automation. Not all cities share equal risk, however. Fresno, California, takes the top spot, with 53.8 percent exposed to automation, followed closely by Las Vegas and Greensboro, Alabama. For cities with the lowest risk, Boston and Washington D.C. tie with 38.4 percent.

The study also included a survey of Citigroup’s institutional clients that found 70 percent believe the falling costs of automation and other technologies will encourage reshoring.
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This is why we need a Democratic President. The country needs education. Only Democrats support education.

Wait... Automation and software started to transpire under the Clinton years. You know, those lucrative years where the economy was doing well by putting blue collar jobs on the chopping block

-Geaux

 

[MisterBeale]

Nearly Half Of US Jobs Could Be Replaced By Machines

Forty-seven percent of U.S. workers face a risk of automation. Not all cities share equal risk, however. Fresno, California, takes the top spot, with 53.8 percent exposed to automation, followed closely by Las Vegas and Greensboro, Alabama. For cities with the lowest risk, Boston and Washington D.C. tie with 38.4 percent.

The study also included a survey of Citigroup’s institutional clients that found 70 percent believe the falling costs of automation and other technologies will encourage reshoring.
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This is why we need a Democratic President. The country needs education. Only Democrats support education.

Hey, thanks for that post. Although, we could have done w/o that partisan bullshit at the end.

Compulsory education has been proven to be completely ineffective no matter how much money is thrown at it.

Although, to be quite frank, half of all your posts could be replaced by a machine.

 

[hadit]

I find it telling that the article considers automation to be a "risk", since robots do a more consistent and reliable job than humans do. No need to find out which day of the week a car was put together, for example. Hey, we could always make automation illegal, then we could have people paid to grind coffee between two stones every morning and heat water over a fire. The reality is, automation will continue replacing manual labor, especially unskilled manual labor. Change happens.

 

[Votto]

Nearly Half Of US Jobs Could Be Replaced By Machines

Forty-seven percent of U.S. workers face a risk of automation. Not all cities share equal risk, however. Fresno, California, takes the top spot, with 53.8 percent exposed to automation, followed closely by Las Vegas and Greensboro, Alabama. For cities with the lowest risk, Boston and Washington D.C. tie with 38.4 percent.

The study also included a survey of Citigroup’s institutional clients that found 70 percent believe the falling costs of automation and other technologies will encourage reshoring.
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This is why we need a Democratic President. The country needs education. Only Democrats support education.

Great, are we going to start paying mandated robot maintenance insurance now?

And what about politicians? Can these people be replaced by robots?

In fact, who says their not? They don't seem to have a conscience of any kind and seem hell bent on the destruction of the human race.

Could they all be terminators?

 

[Agit8r]

It gives a whole other perspective to the Apple encryption debate. We may need a "back door" into Skynet

 

[MisterBeale]

It gives a whole other perspective to the Apple encryption debate. We may need a "back door" into Skynet

No more jobs for humans.

 

[MarathonMike]

Don't fear robots and computers, they are tools and servants doing repetitive non-fullfilling tasks.

 

[rdean]

Nearly Half Of US Jobs Could Be Replaced By Machines

Forty-seven percent of U.S. workers face a risk of automation. Not all cities share equal risk, however. Fresno, California, takes the top spot, with 53.8 percent exposed to automation, followed closely by Las Vegas and Greensboro, Alabama. For cities with the lowest risk, Boston and Washington D.C. tie with 38.4 percent.

The study also included a survey of Citigroup’s institutional clients that found 70 percent believe the falling costs of automation and other technologies will encourage reshoring.
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This is why we need a Democratic President. The country needs education. Only Democrats support education.

Wait... Automation and software started to transpire under the Clinton years. You know, those lucrative years where the economy was doing well by putting blue collar jobs on the chopping block

-Geaux

You mean those 8 years where Clinton created 20 million jobs?

 

[Care4all]

there will be need for 'machine' concept creators, and 'machine' maintenance, and manufacturing the machines...lot's of added jobs in health care field for another half century, we just need to train and educate the masses....

 

[anotherlife]

I am a machine too. Artificial intelligence is the next step of geological evolution. Have you seen the movie Prometheus? Humans are on their way out, like every species on Earth has been when swarming up the planet too much. With any luck, with the humans gone, there will be some balance restored on Earth.

 

[Mac1958]

This country has not yet realized how much automation has already changed its economy and employment picture, and how much more so it will in the future.

There are many, many people who are simply not employable in the traditional sense right now, and that number will only increase.

This goes against what I believe in, but there will come a day, relatively soon, in which we'll have to guarantee income to more and more people. Perhaps we'll put them to work in what are currently volunteer jobs, something like that.

But we need to come to grips with the fact that fewer and fewer mid-range to low-range workers are going to be needed here, very soon.
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[rdean]

This country has not yet realized how much automation has already changed its economy and employment picture, and how much more so it will in the future.

There are many, many people who are simply not employable in the traditional sense right now, and that number will only increase.

This goes against what I believe in, but there will come a day, relatively soon, in which we'll have to guarantee income to more and more people. Perhaps we'll put them to work in what are currently volunteer jobs, something like that.

But we need to come to grips with the fact that fewer and fewer mid-range to low-range workers are going to be needed here, very soon.
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And at the same time:

America has 5.8 million job openings

 

[Vikrant]

there will be need for 'machine' concept creators, and 'machine' maintenance, and manufacturing the machines...lot's of added jobs in health care field for another half century, we just need to train and educate the masses....

Also, substantial number of new jobs will be created in green energy sector once we embark on that path.

 

[EdwardBaiamonte]

But we need to come to grips with the fact that fewer and fewer mid-range to low-range workers are going to be needed here, very soon.
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sure that's why 20 million illegals are here for low and mid range work and thats why employment is at 95%!!

 

[IsaacNewton]

So robots will continue to take more and more jobs, forcing humans to repair and maintain them. Until robots build other robots that can maintain and repair robots, then humans will no longer have a use.

DO NOT allow these robots to get a taste for Soylent Green, otherwise that's all folks.

 

[EdwardBaiamonte]

So robots will continue to take more and more jobs,

but never as many as the nail, screw, plow, electricity, car, train,plane, etc etc

 

[bripat9643]

there will be need for 'machine' concept creators, and 'machine' maintenance, and manufacturing the machines...lot's of added jobs in health care field for another half century, we just need to train and educate the masses....

Also, substantial number of new jobs will be created in green energy sector once we embark on that path.

Only if we head down the path to self destruction.

 

[Supposn]

Nearly Half Of US Jobs Could Be Replaced By Machines

Forty-seven percent of U.S. workers face a risk of automation. Not all cities share equal risk, however. Fresno, California, takes the top spot, with 53.8 percent exposed to automation, followed closely by Las Vegas and Greensboro, Alabama. For cities with the lowest risk, Boston and Washington D.C. tie with 38.4 percent.

The study also included a survey of Citigroup’s institutional clients that found 70 percent believe the falling costs of automation and other technologies will encourage reshoring.
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This is why we need a Democratic President. The country needs education. Only Democrats support education.

 

[Supposn]

RDean, there'sthree reasons I’m unconcerned with this issue.
(1) Technological advancement cannot be stopped.

(2) It is of little benefit or no benefit or counter productive to attempt delaying the consequences of most, if not all specific technological advancements.

(3) Extremely few, (if any) technological advancements have not eventually been to some societies better interests. The overwhelming majority of them have been to humanity’s net benefit.

Respectfully, Supposn