$15 an hour VS. Robotics

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  • Free
    Free Posts: 3,562
    lukin2006 said:

    Simple solution ... If you are opposed to business that pays less than a living wage then DON'T ever support those business's. It'd be tough but probably doable.

  • Jason P
    Jason P Posts: 19,327
    ^ Then say goodbye to all your electronics
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  • lukin2006
    lukin2006 Posts: 9,087
    Jason P said:

    ^ Then say goodbye to all your electronics

    You are right ...
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  • mace1229
    mace1229 Posts: 9,907
    That's true, I never thought of that. If we are going to impose a high federal minimum wage, then why would we trade with countries who profit from child labor?
  • cottagesteeze
    cottagesteeze St. Paul, MN Posts: 218
    Has anybody thought about the fact that these new robots need to be designed, manufactured, and marketed? Yes, they replace humans at mcdonalds, but they also open up true careers as well
  • eddiec
    eddiec Posts: 3,963
    I love this idea. I'm all for a complete boycott of the diabetes inducing, American obesity contributor, destroyer of our nation's food reputation McDonald's for a long time. But everybody's argument was always 'look how many people they employ'. Well if they go robotic nobody has to worry about costing anybody a job. I'm all for it, go robotic scumbags.
  • benjs
    benjs Toronto, ON Posts: 9,391
    edited May 2016
    I remember watching a TED Talk about the fallacy of robots - namely, that they will only ever replace the burger flipper or assembly line employee. Between the Automation industry and the Artificial Intelligence industry - take a look at which is seeing more breakthroughs. The sky is the limit when it comes to the roles which robots can fill in our society, and maybe not today, but one day, I truly believe that the people with wealth will be the people who congregate to create or program robots.

    Another side industry that I think will become important (albeit not large), is programming ethics for these robots, and designing legislation to design that code. For example, in a self-driving car where one action would lead to a pedestrian's death, and another would lead to the passenger's, and one action or the other is inevitable - who lives and who dies? Someone must design that logic for the car to know the appropriate action.
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  • what dreams
    what dreams Posts: 1,761
    benjs said:

    I remember watching a TED Talk about the fallacy of robots - namely, that they will only ever replace the burger flipper or assembly line employee. Between the Automation industry and the Artificial Intelligence industry - take a look at which is seeing more breakthroughs. The sky is the limit when it comes to the roles which robots can fill in our society, and maybe not today, but one day, I truly believe that the people with wealth will be the people who congregate to create or program robots.

    Another side industry that I think will become important (albeit not large), is programming ethics for these robots, and designing legislation to design that code. For example, in a self-driving car where one action would lead to a pedestrian's death, and another would lead to the passenger's, and one action or the other is inevitable - who lives and who dies? Someone must design that logic for the car to know the appropriate action.

    Yikes, that's quite an ethics challenge. No self-driving cars for me

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