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2017-04-03 Home Front: Politix
Jeb Bush warns robots taking US jobs is not science fiction
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Posted by Fred 2017-04-03 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11129 views ]  Top

#1 illegals cheap labor has just slowed down robotics in many industries.
Posted by Jan 2017-04-03 00:46||   2017-04-03 00:46|| Front Page Top

#2 OK, who's Jeb Bush?
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2017-04-03 02:08||   2017-04-03 02:08|| Front Page Top

#3 Nice enough chap. A bit numpty, but a nice enough chap.
Posted by Besoeker 2017-04-03 04:11||   2017-04-03 04:11|| Front Page Top

#4 Could have all been prevented if Westerners hadn't overvalued their labor so damn much over the past forty years.
Posted by no mo uro 2017-04-03 06:35||   2017-04-03 06:35|| Front Page Top

#5 demand changes to "antiquated" education systems that aren't preparing AMERICAN students to be competitive in the job market
Posted by Skidmark 2017-04-03 07:02||   2017-04-03 07:02|| Front Page Top

#6 Even with illegal immigration, it was going to happen eventually. We will go through a modern version of the industrial revolution. A robotic revolution. Some people will be hurt, some people will get rich beyond mortal dreams, most will adapt and get along just fine.
Posted by DarthVader 2017-04-03 07:36||   2017-04-03 07:36|| Front Page Top

#7 Springer people hit hardest.
Posted by Procopius2k 2017-04-03 07:41||   2017-04-03 07:41|| Front Page Top

#8 All down hill since the plough pulled by that job stealing oxen.
Posted by Bright Pebbles 2017-04-03 08:28||   2017-04-03 08:28|| Front Page Top

#9 and get along just fine.

Not so sure about that Darth. Over the long term maybe but in the 20 year or so time frame it will be hard on a whole lot of people. You can't just wake up one day and be prepared for finding a new job in a new field.
Posted by AlanC 2017-04-03 09:10||   2017-04-03 09:10|| Front Page Top

#10 There is always disruption, AlanC. For a lot of the farmers, especially in Europe where it was barely subsistence living, the crowded and dirty conditions in the city were preferable as they at least got to eat regularly.

For the Union man getting $50/h for putting a part on, it will be a very rude change.
Posted by DarthVader 2017-04-03 09:59||   2017-04-03 09:59|| Front Page Top

#11 AlanC, Vader did say "Some people will be hurt"
Posted by rjschwarz 2017-04-03 11:54||   2017-04-03 11:54|| Front Page Top

#12 Please clap...
Posted by Raj 2017-04-03 12:14||   2017-04-03 12:14|| Front Page Top

#13 My niece in Colorado has been having a devil of a time getting straightforward jobs done at her house: replacing (and correctly installing) a very expensive home hot water heating system, getting optical refractions done adequately, among others. I doubt the jobs she has been having trouble with, will be replaced by robots any time soon. She thinks part of the problem is legalized marijuana. Funneling even more money into the educational system won't do much to help students get jobs of the future.
Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2017-04-03 13:47||   2017-04-03 13:47|| Front Page Top

#14 #2 OK, who's Jeb Bush?

He's a Doctor of Real Estate (obscure Kurt Vonnegut reference).
Posted by JHH 2017-04-03 14:36||   2017-04-03 14:36|| Front Page Top

#15 Sorry JHH, I tried to read Vonnegut - never liked anything of his except Harrison Bergeron.
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2017-04-03 14:40||   2017-04-03 14:40|| Front Page Top

#16 obscure Kurt Vonnegut reference
Posted by Pappy 2017-04-03 16:04||   2017-04-03 16:04|| Front Page Top

#17 If the Dims and Rinos keep pushing minimum wage up and up for flipping burgers, and slinging the mop, American Business Enginuity will "frack" the job market.
Posted by Nero White 3083 2017-04-03 17:32||   2017-04-03 17:32|| Front Page Top

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