Source: Time
At a community college in upstate New York, 12 cafeteria workers recently learned that they will lose their jobs — and be replaced by self-serve machines. It’s an issue that has played out in communities across the country, as robots get better and better at doing jobs — from taking fast food orders to mining coal — that once belonged to humans.
Is your job next? The answer to that question is complicated, according to a report by management consultant McKinsey, but most workers don’t need to worry. Experts found that less than 5% of jobs can be completely replaced by technology, though nearly every job involves tasks that robots could learn to do.
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Jobs with predictable activities in structured environments are the easiest to replicate with robots, a process known as automation. McKinsey estimates that 51% of all job-related activities in the U.S. economy fit this description, largely in manufacturing, food service and retail trade sectors.
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Without actual ‘robots’ many jobs have already gone to ‘automation’. For instance look at the check-in counters at the airport. Now you are directed to the machines to get your boarding pass. How many check-in staff already lost their jobs? All cash you are now getting from ATMs. How many ‘tellers’ in the bank have already lost their jobs? Banking you do on e-banking. How many bank staff already lost their jobs?
So, the most important question here would be – how do the humans survive? Are governments ready to pay people whose jobs were taken over by robots? How are the authorities planning on dealing with such a problem/s?
In fact, joblessness would create a multitude of problems; both for people and their governments.
Therefore, I believe, before robots are allowed to take over jobs and cause massive unemployment, governments should bring is alternatives for this state of affairs, shouldn’t they?
Because for human beings, it’s one of the most important rights – to be able to work!