>>32Replacing a cashier monkey with an iPad is all very well, except that most people are simply too stupid to use them efficiently. You can see it in action with self-checkout machines at the super markets.
Don't go to places frequented by subhumans then.
Stores that rely on touchscreens and other self-service machines also need a bunch of trained humans to constantly clean up the messes that idiots make when trying to operate a machine no matter what the UI looks like.
Then don't have a UI. Have the little RFID stickers they use to check out library books and a sensor in the floor that totals up the amount when you push the shopping cart over it. Move coupons to a smartphone app and put a QR code reader on the machine where they swipe their credit card. Have two employees on call to help retards instead of ten. Doesn't even matter if it sometimes misses a banana, since it will still cost less than paying $20K a year for a human to do it. Fast food can cut down the menu and options and just have a vending machine-esque interface. Order goes to the teenager in the back who tosses a burger in the microwave for five minutes and carries it out.
Now you are probably saying "smh kek but what about when we make robots to replace those humans?" And this is the root of your misunderstanding. There is literally zero chance that a robot that could perform the same functions that Monkeyshia does in the packaging warehouse or fast food chain can be developed for less cost than it takes to create 100 adult humans who will do the job for a low wage.
Amazon has already had great success at automating warehouses, and it's not too hard to pack a box. The cost to develop the system that does such things doesn't have to be cheaper than a hundred humans; it would be developed by a company that sells the same systems to several business to spread the fixed cost around. The only reason why it's not done until now is because under GAAP, research and development costs are expensed and not capitalized even when successful, causing a high, fixed cost that isn't assignable to any common allocation base.
Do you know how hard it is to recreate even a simple hand gesture using technology? And I don't mean the programing side of it, I mean manufacturing an imitation hand that can perform functions comparable to a human. Robots will not replace monkey workers.
There was thirty five years between the Wright Flyer and the B-17 Bomber. Putting a hundred million transistors on a chip was hard, but you can buy that for a few dollars. Natural language processing is hard, but Jewgle just open sourced their software to do so. There is nothing special about how humans operate, and worst-case scenario, just record the hand movements that humans use and play them back with the machine. You don't have enough faith in capitalism. Hundreds of billions have spent researching completely worthless shit that never paid off and yet, people still invest. The company that is first to move advanced robotics will make hundreds of billions, and investors will take the risk for that if they know that they have customers. Kick out the shitskins and raising the minimum wage is a definite way to get more investor money involved.
More importantly, you can just change the process to accommodate machines. You are too hung up on the idea that things must be designed with a human being in mind.
Also, the entire workforce does not need to be put out of work all at once you buffoon. Starting with the easy shit. Things don't have to be perfect. Real boats rock, and everyone important knows that. Cowards get killed first in business.
The fact is, physical work will never be done primarily by machines. It is simply too expensive to develop machines that can operate with even the efficiency of a down's baby. The job in the most danger of being phased out by machines is doctors, since it is cost-effective to develop massively expensive machines to perform medical work since 1) doctors are overpaid and 2) people are willing to pay millions for their health but not for a hamburger.
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. Where are they now? Only a retard would so that so matter-of-factly. The matter of fact is that the world doesn't need you and that you should have gotten an education and learned a skill while you had the chance.
Educated people understand that and it is the reason the only countries blathering on about "tolerance" and how noble it is to import millions of savages are those with declining birth rates.
They need millions of shitskins because they work for cheap. Want to see automation blossom? Give amnesty and raise and enforce the minimum wage. The reason why ancient Rome didn't have an industrial revolution was because they could just get slaves to do everything they needed. Machines will outperform any human at any repetitive task, but it is hard to escape that local extreme to get to it.