Walmart use to be the place to go if you couldn't find a job anywhere else.
Now there will be no where to work
First mechanical bees and now this? What’s with Walmart getting into robotics all of the sudden?
Soon all the general first jobs will be done by robots, but career employers will still expecting a degree and 5 years experience to get an entry level position...
at the walmart I just started working at, they're going to do a big renovation of the store soon so they can put in giant towers stacked with stuff, where you can get machines to individually take down packages from, and they're putting in a lot more spaces for their app that that lets people order stuff and have employees deliver it to their car
its mostly because of competition now, they said that lots of people are leaving for places like amazon
I can't wait to be unemployed.
This alone I don't see replacing jobs. The employees still need to stock and fix, the robots just tell them where.
Still, it's infuriating how far companies will go for the sake of a little dough saved in spite of millions of people who are still struggling to find work.
Guess it's their own fault for wanting such extravagant luxuries like food and water
The issue is that these aren't even good jobs; there are millions of good trade skill labor out there that is needed but Americans think we're above that shit.
I'm unfortunatly stuck in a Catch22 of tried going to college, college professor fucked me outta my diploma but I have a loan to pay but I can't find work to actually go into trade school/.
Hold up, what?
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.geekwire.com/2018/walmart-wants-patent-robot-bees/amp/
i heard about it a couple days ago.
100% agree. But what solutions does the government offer?
Don't worry
You won't be alone
And one thing that's important is that this is making living standards higher, overall, due to increasing productivity. This essentially makes it easier for the government to take care of people.
No. I'm tired of this. This is a cop out answer that removes a shitload of financial responsibility that these fuckhead CEOs and middle managers want to skirt at every god damn opportunity and then act like victims when they get busted.
Private companies cannot function without an economy, nor can they function based on employment managed by a government. Putting all of the weight on government never ends well and in fact is exactly what we've done in the United States and guess what it, it fucking failed miserably. Most employment now is part time shit pay jobs that don't actually mean anything and our economy and ability to do things have been hurt. Has the government failed in some way, yes. But if you agree with this point that Big Business and Government are too cozy, then it is also the fault of Big Business. So that argument can go hang itself because its a responsibility tossing loop of bullshit.
Big Buisness abuses the government, whether its big warehouses like Amazon or Walmart itself relying far to heavily on MOTHERFUCKING FOODSTAMPS for both their business and making up for the shit pay they give or Disney doing everything it can to strangle out and consolidate as many media firms as possible so that they'll just swim in money and also stamp out smaller companies.
Buisnesses need to be held accountable; they need to make jobs. They need to act responsibly in a society and they are not, not even close. Every other major first world nation except the UK has right to work laws and has businesses working closing with government to provide decent paying job. Hell, Germany, the fucking poster child of such a model, forces buisnesses to have Unions and have union members on the boards which make big financial decisions. Clearly; your thesis is wrong.
Yes, this is rad as fuck. Take a moment to look beyond the terrifying implication automation sets for certain job markets around the world and stuff like this is just sci-fi and cool as shit.
"uh sir, this robot is telling us our shrink is abysmal..."
"Fuck, we don't want the shareholders to know, pull the plug NOW"
Where the fuck would I get the money to get the training for skilled labor?
Your own savings/credit or government assistance.
The US govt already tries to offer training for ex-coal miners and the like. You could expand it further.
I agree with the vast majority of your post, but automation is a pretty specific and unique issue when compared to all the other ways Big Business is fucking up. Automation will happen, and the economic interests of these shady companies will only speed that up. So curbing that can only slow the problems automation presents.
Your frustration is truly justified in this situation because our's and the next few generations are going to face a terrifying shift in the job market that's going to make it even harder to maintain a life with a decent wage, but when you take a step back, and ~*~chill out~*~, you can see the beauty and wonder that automating some of these jobs provides. You can kind of imagine that sci-fi utopian future with robot butlers and shit, y'know? It's not exactly productive thinking, because we're about to enter a really bad time to be alive in human history. But at the same time, we're kind of at the cusp of a really awesome time to be alive in human history as well. Only time will tell, and hopefully good will overcome the bad and we'll all sort our shit out before terrifying problems like these and other existential dreads grip us.
Technical college is practically free with federal financial aid, I would know because this is how I got my Associate's degree.
No its not because I'm loaded with loans from it; and I got fucked over by it.
You're being obscenely obtuse and ignoring my arguments from the get go, pushing words into my mouth and ignoring what I'm saying. Your entire arguement so far has been, "But your wrong, now let me put hyberbole in my posts because I don't actually have a point."
A German for example can fuck themselves with debt just as well you know. E.g. running straight to a private uni. That's not an argument that credit constraints are an empirically-based issue in itself.
Btw you've made no real citations in your posts beyond prax so ???
I mean I didn't claim it was evidence, and you don't have to take out the loans. I don't know the cost of whatever college you went it but it wasn't necessary for mine. What was your tuition?
It's going to be fucking hilarious when all of these mega-corporations collapse when there is nobody left to buy their products due to everyone being unemployed. This will absolutely be the case in America since the nation is straight-up run by corporations and outright ignores any and all evidence that what they are doing is wrong and failing. It's going to happen in our lifetimes, too, which is the beautiful thing about it. A lot of people under 35 can see this coming, but we can't do a thing about it so long as our two main political parties are made up of corporate dicksucking Neocons and Neolibs.
There's also historical basis for what happens when a society becomes too top-heavy - Both France and Russia were in the same situation that America is in now right before their revolutions, but with Aristocracy holding the wealth instead of Amazon. Only this time half of the population is fully mind-controlled by the media and will gladly let the nation die rather than elect anyone that is willing to change the direction that we are headed.
A German also has finanical tools at their disposal.
As an American, I don't have anything like that. In fact because of my status as a drop out, I can't even refinance my loans into a larger simpler loan to focus all of my attention on.
It raised every year by 5,000 dollars. It started 25, and then after 5 years it was approx. 50,000.
Except to get financial aid and not be saddled with loans you have to meet certain requirements whatever they may be. Every time I have done the fafsa I only meet the requirements for the stafford student loans.
Walmart is just proto BnL.
Maybe it's more dependent on the job? I am 100% for the forward progress of robots and the like, but do we need to put a robot in every single job? I can see them in car factories, combat, medical, and other things where human error can cost lives. Regardless this is cool though.
That's what I have! They're...lovely.
What tools specifically?
There are quite a few options for US student loans depending on what sort of loans they are. Some even let people work in the public sector and pay only interest, before it all disappearing.
Also what the fuck where did you go?
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