Why American Workers Need to Be Protected From Automation [Op-Ed]
wired.com/story/why-american-workers-need-to-...Posted Sep 5, 2019, 8:13 PM UTC
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I work as an electrical engineer that designs and implements industrial automation equipment. From my personal experience, companies do not lay off or fire entry-level employees after increasing levels of automation within their facility. They tend to assign those employees new jobs (ie. jobs that cannot be easily automated), promote those employees, or offer the employees a chance advance their education so that they have the skills for a promotion.
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If jobs becomes an issue we could just lower the work week to 35 hours then eventually 20 hours
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Shortsighted and stupid. Progress will happen even if you Luddites don't like it. How about you train people to fix these machines. How about you train people to build these machines. Or maybe mandate a 4 hour work day (thereby making 1 human job require 2 people). With all this automation going on there should be more free time available for everyone.
Yea I like when people try to stop the future to preserve a shitty aftifsct of the now. Society and structures need to progress faster, we don't need technology to progress slower.