Thursday, August 19, 2010
(via: doug, 2020) If a robot1 was able to take your job, you didn’t have a job worth keeping. You just didn’t know it yet. Build skills that require you, not just a business process. [1]: Or an unskilled laborer who doesn’t speak the local language. who designed and built the robots? who maintains their software and hardware? who responds to the increased demand on the energy infrastructure? workers who used to slave away at backbreaking, soul-crushing, repetitive manual labor; that’s who.

(via: doug, 2020)

If a robot1 was able to take your job, you didn’t have a job worth keeping. You just didn’t know it yet. Build skills that require you, not just a business process.

[1]: Or an unskilled laborer who doesn’t speak the local language.

who designed and built the robots? who maintains their software and hardware? who responds to the increased demand on the energy infrastructure? workers who used to slave away at backbreaking, soul-crushing, repetitive manual labor; that’s who.

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    I’ve been to an automotive assembly plant, a electrical-parts recycling plant, and an air-conditioner manufacturing...
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    Hermmm. It seems to me we’ve got no choice in our shift toward a new form of economics… Them robots free up a lot of...
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    With the population problem in Japan they need more jobs taken by robots, not less.
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    Amen. Evolving society liberates itself from destructive forms of labour, if it’s someone’s ideal to go into coal mines...
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    designed and built...robots? who maintains their software and hardware? who responds to...
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    a blow job? *badum-ch*
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    Too bad Arnold’s tenure as governor of Cali has made him too soft to fight man hunting machines
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    ) Ah yes, luddism will be back in style soon.
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    poetinthenight:ilovecharts:2020:Robots Will Take Your Job...i lost a job to a machine...
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    GOD DAMN ROBOTS ARE TAKING OVER THE WORLD
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