>>33Then don't have a UI. Have the little RFID [...]
Even your theoretical examples couldn't get away from the fact that you still needs lots of human beings to keep things operating. My point is that technology will not come close to replacing humans at monkey work, not that it won't replace certain functions currently done by humans
Amazon has already had great success at automating warehouses
No they have not. They had great success with automating the process of choosing which warehouse to stock items and how many to stock and what shipping provider to use in any given moment. But that is data analysis, not monkey work that pays min. wage.
Amazon warehouses are teeming with people. In fact, Amazon chooses locations where its new FBA warehouses are to be opened based on where there is lots of unemployment - ie. lots of desperate workers who are willing to work in a hell hole warehouse with no AC. Why would they do that if they were on the cusp of developing affordable machines to pack their boxes?
it's not too hard to pack a box
That depends. It is very hard to pack a box (in the highly-variable way a B2C fulfillment warehouse needs to do it) if you don't have hands. Making machines that replicate a human hand is incredibly difficult and expensive and has continued to be for a long time. Not everything simply requires an "epiphany" and suddenly it can magically be made cheaply and easily. It is likely it will never be cost effective to develop machines that can perform tasks that a human hand can.
You are too hung up on the idea that things must be designed with a human being in mind
No, I am hung up on the idea that many functions we perform without conscious thought are extremely complex and there is no evidence that machines can perform these functions at a cost that is less than paying a human min. wage.
Kick out the shitskins and raising the minimum wage is a definite way to get more investor money involved
Again, this is economics, not fantasy. Shitskins were let into the West due to dropping birth rates among the locals. The reason it needed to happen is that experts looked at the facts and realized it simply isn't feasible to build machines that can replace humans for monkey work due to the massive resources and other costs required. Thus, if there wasn't a steady supply of humans willing to clean toilets and pack boxes capitalism would collapse.
Hundreds of billions have spent researching completely worthless shit that never paid off
Examples? That is a laughable statement. Most R&D investment is related to war, the rest is because there is a reasonable possibility of it paying off. Nobody is going to invest in replacing monkey-work humans with robots because the reward isn't worth the massive risk. Humans are so damn complex yet it costs most businesses nothing to make a human, other people do it for free and then the person is willing to work on zero hour contracts with no benefits. Yet you think businesses will invest trillions in hard resources to replace this essentially free labor? Why? Why would governments do it? Because they hate tax revenue?
And human computers didn't think that they were in trouble when electromechanical computers showed up on the scene, because, after all, the machine didn't have the intuition to correct mistakes in the data and had to be reprogrammed for every different tabulation format and they didn't
What you are missing is that there is a difference between developing software and hardware. If you read my post past the truncate, I stated that doctors are going to be huge victims of technological advancement. It is building the kind of machines that can replace min. wage workers that is a ridiculous concept. It simply won't happen because it is so much cheaper to make a human than a comparably complex machine.
Want to see automation blossom? Give amnesty and raise and enforce the minimum wage
You're just guessing. Again, you don't understand how damn complex the human body is. Not the mind, the BODY. Building machines that can perform similar tasks to any nigger is cost-prohibitive.