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"Wages
are of no importance. The export of productive processes from America
to China (off-shoring) was only an intermediate stage. The production
has returned to America, but not the jobs."
“It
seems that professional drivers are in danger to become unemployed
this time. Even services sector could become hyper-automatized. It is
characteristic that Troika in Greece is forcing the government to
'open' all professions. Although for example, private taxi owners and
drivers form a quite saturated sector, which means that there are too
many in every Greek town, the government promotes the 'opening' of
this sector which means that, a few multinational companies will soon
prevail 'dragging' prices even lower and making current small-medium
taxi owners and drivers impossible to withstand the competition.
Imagine the day when these companies would be able to own fleets
without any drivers! More profit for them, more unemployed drivers!”
“The UK
government has announced that driverless cars will be allowed on
public roads from January next year.”
"A
team of engineers used little more than paper and Shrinky dinks - the
classic children’s toy that shrinks when heated - to build a robot
that assembles itself into a complex shape in four minutes flat, and
crawls away without any human intervention.”
"Intelligent
machines will be able to design even more intelligent machines,
leading to what mathematician I.J. Good called back in 1965 an
'intelligence explosion' that will leave human capabilities far
behind.”
“The
worst kept secret of Apple and its Taiwanese manufacturer Foxconn
isn't their poor labor conditions. It isn't even the fact that they
use robots to help bring together all the pieces that make up an
iPhone. It's that their robots are now performing more and more
human-like functions.”
Meanwhile:
“The
challenge we face is a daunting one. Work claims more victims around
the globe than does war: an estimated 2.3 million workers die every
year from occupational accidents and diseases,”
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