The end of work in America.

[Jan SobieskiParticipant 28791]

No good paying jobs anymore.

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[Anonymous 42]

We went from making things to FAKING THINGS!

[foolsgoldParticipant 5637]

The old man in my neighborhood had an interesting take. He said they should keep the manufacturing jobs here and outsource the CEO.

[AutoliteParticipant]

Well, we know the Americans at least made damn good tractors in 1948…

[xlrsnbrgParticipant 1786]

foolsgold wrote:

The old man in my neighborhood had an interesting take. He said they should keep the manufacturing jobs here and outsource the CEO.

That’s funny, but a pretty good idea. They have the biggest salaries. Think of all the money that could be saved.

A man shouldn't make his life's objective to be on the side of the majority, but to avoid finding himself in the ranks of the insane. (Marcus Aurelius)

[black_knightParticipant 2602]

I’m a truck driver in the UK and frequent a truck driver forum. There’s always a lot of discussion on there about self driving trucks being a reality within 10-20 years. It seems as if there will still be a need for drivers, but they won’t be drivers. They will be attendants, securing loads and driving the last few miles ‘through the houses’. Such de-skilling means truck driving jobs (as well as most other sectors) will by soul-destroying, demeaning, prideless affairs. Oh… and minimum wage, as opposed to being reasonably well paid now.

The future for 95% of the population is twice as dystopian as the present. I’m never having kids.

[joetechParticipant]

They’re still going to need people to repair and maintain those trucks. The service industry is about all that’s left in America. “Would you like fries with that”…is becoming the cry of the college graduate in the U.S..

"Don't follow in my footsteps...I stepped in something."

[Anonymous 3]

black_knight wrote:

self driving trucks

A truck may drive itself on the boring long highways, because no one likes to concentrate for long hours no break. But in the cities, full of people, and random stupidity of traffic, and nonexistent / stolen traffic signs, and all the bulls~~~, and the very high price tag of a truck load of anything, or the possible catastrophe a runaway / hacked truck can do, there will always be need for human drivers next to any self driving rolling computer.They will not take that big risk.

(writing this without a driver’s licence, but many tens of thousand kilometers in my bicycle in the city, I know all the bad, what goes on…)

[SandalsParticipant 4253]

What did people think computers were going to do? Create more jobs?

America was an organism. All organisms eventually die. The question is not will America come back. That’s a no – America is dead. The question is, what’s going to replace it?

[AutoliteParticipant]

Anonymous wrote:

A truck may drive itself on the boring long highways, because no one likes to concentrate for long hours no break.

I can’t see how self driving vehicles are going to work. When the roads are covered in snow, how is the computer going to ‘know’ whether it’s going down a road or across a snow covered field???

[Jan SobieskiParticipant 28791]

Sensors, IR, video, etc.

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[SandalsParticipant 4253]

Autolite wrote:

I can’t see how self driving vehicles are going to work. When the roads are covered in snow, how is the computer going to ‘know’ whether it’s going down a road or across a snow covered field???

We have had self driving cars for a long time. They’re called trains.

[AutoliteParticipant]

Jan Sobieski wrote:

Sensors, IR, video, etc.

Methinks we perhaps haven’t done a whole lot of winter driving on Canadian roads. I’ve been in white-out conditions so severe that my own ‘organic visual position indicators’ were unable to determine whether the vehicle was heading down a road, across a snow covered farmer’s field or traversing a frozen lake…

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