Saturday, February 5, 2011

Robots Stealing Our Jobs

If you work in a factory then you know there are robots out there that can do almost anything a human can do. The fact is that in just 2010 over a million new jobs went to robots instead of humans. This is part of what is causing the unemployment rate to go so high, companies see that they can pay $1,000,000 for a robot and it will work 24hrs a day 7days a week with no hourly pay or benefits, it won't call in sick or get injured on the job. This is how technology is hurting humanity. I am not preaching that technology is bad, in fact I am all for technology, I think that if the government wants to help with unemployment they should stipulate how many robots can take peoples jobs away, put a cap on the amount of robots per factory. Stop designing robots to do jobs that people are more than capable of doing themselves. If you haven't noticed that technology is growing by leaps and bounds every year, the robotics industry is getting better and better at what they do, you may find that a robot will soon be doing whatever your job is tomorrow. When that happens we will all be on a local job search.

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