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McParadigm wrote:
broken iris wrote:
McParadigm wrote:
Yeah, the "This is a fast food worker on $15 minimum wage" graphic was pretty because, if you can successfully automate the process without loss of service, then that will be a fast food worker on $7, $5, or $3 minimum wage, too.
No amount of social defiance, human empathy, or proposed wage reduction was ever going to stop the loom.
That's the key though, isn't it? The customer never had to interact with a loom, only the tailor did. In this case it's pinpointing how much the wages will have to go up before their impact on profit outweighs the loss of sales due to the interaction with a McATM.
I know the only reason I ever go to McDonalds is for those touching human interactions.
It's not the human interaction impact so much as the challenges the median McDonald's customer will face operating a touch screen GUI instead of grunting "Number 3".
To hell with unskilled laborers. We should have a thread just on professional-level careers that could realistically be more than 50% supplanted by technology in the next 7 years. Radiologists, real estate agents, hedge fund managers...what will they all do when they get replaced by algorhythms and devices...and there are no McDonald's jobs to fall back on?
To hell with unskilled laborers. We should have a thread just on professional-level careers that could realistically be more than 50% supplanted by technology in the next 7 years. Radiologists, real estate agents, hedge fund managers...what will they all do when they get replaced by algorhythms and devices...and there are no McDonald's jobs to fall back on?
To hell with unskilled laborers. We should have a thread just on professional-level careers that could realistically be more than 50% supplanted by technology in the next 7 years. Radiologists, real estate agents, hedge fund managers...what will they all do when they get replaced by algorhythms and devices...and there are no McDonald's jobs to fall back on?
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McParadigm wrote:
Electromatic wrote:
McParadigm wrote:
To hell with unskilled laborers. We should have a thread just on professional-level careers that could realistically be more than 50% supplanted by technology in the next 7 years. Radiologists, real estate agents, hedge fund managers...what will they all do when they get replaced by algorhythms and devices...and there are no McDonald's jobs to fall back on?
To hell with unskilled laborers. We should have a thread just on professional-level careers that could realistically be more than 50% supplanted by technology in the next 7 years. Radiologists, real estate agents, hedge fund managers...what will they all do when they get replaced by algorhythms and devices...and there are no McDonald's jobs to fall back on?
To hell with unskilled laborers. We should have a thread just on professional-level careers that could realistically be more than 50% supplanted by technology in the next 7 years. Radiologists, real estate agents, hedge fund managers...what will they all do when they get replaced by algorhythms and devices...and there are no McDonald's jobs to fall back on?
To hell with unskilled laborers. We should have a thread just on professional-level careers that could realistically be more than 50% supplanted by technology in the next 7 years. Radiologists, real estate agents, hedge fund managers...what will they all do when they get replaced by algorhythms and devices...and there are no McDonald's jobs to fall back on?
Modern day hunting and gathering.
So prostitution, then.
I was thinking more like looting and squatting
So prostitution, then.
Sure, not all that different than working for a corporation anyway
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McParadigm wrote:
To hell with unskilled laborers. We should have a thread just on professional-level careers that could realistically be more than 50% supplanted by technology in the next 7 years. Radiologists, real estate agents, hedge fund managers...what will they all do when they get replaced by algorhythms and devices...and there are no McDonald's jobs to fall back on?
Regarding real estate agents... If you could somehow figure out a way for buyers and sellers to filter out all their batshit crazy emotional swings then you might have something there...but the way people are now, agents often act as guidance counselors as much as anything else.
To clarify: People go absolutely batshit crazy when buying or selling a house.
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because, if you can successfully automate the process without loss of service, then that will be a fast food worker on $7, $5, or $3 minimum wage, too. 
