What happens if robots take the jobs?

[Mangus Colorado]

Paper | October 26, 2015

What happens if robots take the jobs? The impact of emerging technologies on employment and public policy

By: Darrell M. West

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Automation is appearing everywhere. Ready or not, innovations like robotics, computerized algorithms, artificial intelligence, augmented reality, medical sensors and machine-to-machine communications, 3-D printing, and autonomous vehicles will increasingly transform the global economy, even displacing many in the human workforce.

Today only 16 percent of students graduating high school are proficient in and interested in a career in STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics). This fact underlines the potential consequences this new frontier presents for the workforce and the provision of health benefits, pensions, and social insurance. As automation and robots displace or replace workers, how can society adjust so as not to disrupt the delivery of social benefits like health care and pensions?

In a new paper, "What happens if robots take the jobs? The impact of emerging technologies on employment and public policy," Darrell West tackles this question by offering creative solutions to dispensing social benefits while automation continues to rise. West proposes striking economic changes in order to restructure how our society delivers on the social contract, such as:

• Separating the dispersion of health care, disability, and pension benefits outside of employment, offering workers with limited skills social benefits on a universal basis.
• Mandating a basic income guarantee for a reasonable standard of living to combat persistent unemployment or underemployment posed by the automation economy.
• Revamping the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) to allow the benefit to support households in the grips of high unemployment.
• Providing activity accounts for lifetime learning and job retraining to motivate the workforce to keep pace with innovation.
• Offering incentives for volunteerism—beneficial for many people who in the future may not be able to provide for their families through regular employment but may still wish enrich their communities.
• Encouraging corporate profit sharing to spread the benefits of improved productivity to the broader workforce.
• Reforming the education curriculum to reflect the high premium STEM skills will offer employees in the future.
• Expanding arts and culture for leisure time, ensuring that reduction in work will not eliminate chances for cultural pursuits.

"There needs to be ways for people to live fulfilling lives even if society needs relatively few workers," West writes. Taking steps now in anticipation of the exciting new future that awaits will help people adapt to new economic realities.

[M]

The short answer is to get a job building the robots. Meaning proper education instead of propaganda like training from Common Core etal. combined with innovation will create jobs not thought of yet that robots can not accomplish. We need frontiers to challenge us, and there are only two we may reach. Space exploration and deep sea/ocean exploration with the expansion of our knowledge and creation of new viable jobs that create what we call wealth. Example; The original space race. Many Americans lamented on the millions of dollars spent on the "Moon" instead of being spent to help those who were poor and hungry. Every cent was spent right here in America and created jobs that lifted many of those our of poverty by providing jobs. Medicine was also advanced a warp speed so to speak during those years. Just about every benefit of modern technology can be traced back to our original Space Program.

[Mangus Colorado]

M,

How true, we advanced until the lawyers chased the Pharma out of the US, and then the EPA - E=Green chased all the heavy industries out taking 50 million middle class blue collar jobs with them.

We must use our abundant raw materials to revitalize our value added manufacturing.

[charles royer]

Scientists: 'Look, One-Third Of The Human Race Has To Die For Civilization To Be Sustainable, So How Do We Want To Do This?'
WASHINGTON—Saying there's no way around it at this point, a coalition of scientists announced Thursday that one-third of the world population must die to prevent wide-scale depletion of the planet's resources—and that humankind needs to figure out immediately how it wants to go about killing off more than 2 billion members of its species.

Representing multiple fields of study, including ecology, agriculture, biology, and economics, the researchers told reporters that facts are facts: Humanity has far exceeded its sustainable population size, so either one in three humans can choose how they want to die themselves, or there can be some sort of government-mandated liquidation program—but either way, people have to start dying.
And soon, the scientists confirmed.
"I'm just going to level with you—the earth's carrying capacity will no longer be able to keep up with population growth, and civilization will end unless large swaths of human beings are killed, so the question is: How do we want to do this?" Cambridge University ecologist Dr. Edwin Peters said. "Do we want to give everyone a number and implement a death lottery system? Incinerate the nation's children? Kill off an entire race of people? Give everyone a shotgun and let them sort it out themselves?"
http://www.theonion.com/article/scientists-look-one-third-of-the-hu...

[charles royer]

As the scientist who helped eradicate smallpox he certainly know a thing or two about extinction.

And now Professor Frank Fenner, emeritus professor of microbiology at the Australian National University, has predicted that the human race will be extinct within the next 100 years.

He has claimed that the human race will be unable to survive a population explosion and 'unbridled consumption.’

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1287643/Human-race-e...
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[charles royer]

Why do civilizations collapse?
Before we ponder how a civilization falls, let's take a look at how one thrives. A fire, for example, demands oxygen and fuel. Remove either from the equation and the flame gutters out. Civilizations are far more difficult to define, but still demand a number of requirements to thrive.

Historians offer varying lists of criteria for civilization, but most of the lists include the following important factors:

A large, centralized population
A surplus of food
A centralized government
Religious unity
A complex division of labor
Money collected through taxes

This list hardly covers everything, but it should give you an idea of the various glues holding a civilization together, as well as what can go wrong.

Video:
http://science.howstuffworks.com/environmental/green-science/civili...

[M]

The answer to that statement about the capacity of Earth is within our current technological grasp, but is far beyond our Political realities. We have the capability to build habitats at the LaGrange points with each one being a double cylinder counter rotating against each other and tiered on the inside. Mathematical estimates show that even one of them would contain 3 to 5 times the Earth's surface land mass depending on the configurations. Think of what five would do. They would also be our stepping off point platforms for further Space Exploration and getting out of Earth's cradle. All we have to do is to convince the slackers that only want to get the Free stuff from the Government, and convince the powers that be there is an almost unlimited potential for them to increase their wealth beyond their wildest dreams.

[Mangus Colorado]

I wrote this about 10 years ago but need to repost more times.

A BOLD NEW ENERGY POLICY TO SAVE THE AMERICAN WAY OF LIFE!!!

We put millions of skilled workers on manufacturing jobs building 500 to 1,000 Nuclear power plant of a low cost standard design. This will provide all the energy to accomplish a full restoration of our industrial base. How will this happen you ask?

First we "MINE" the oceans for gold, silver, copper, uranium, methane, manganese and other valuable minerals and metals. It has been estimated that it will be profitable to mine gold from the seas at around $ 3,000 per ounce. Second we use cheap nuclear power to extract these metals which could make a profit to pay off the national debt. Third we use the byproduct "WATER" to farm the huge vacant dry south west feeding the entire planet with low cost food.

Finally we use the cheap nuclear power to build factories to manufacture everything the entire planet needs and we return to zero unemployment and can pay good wages because we have free energy that makes a profit in it's creation.The money generated can payoff all debts, build nuclear reprocessing plants, research and develop a system to render nuclear waste harmless.

Just think, full employment, no energy crisis ever, gold to make money valuable, make the dollar the strongest currency on earth, end inflation, end government debt. Just imagine "AMERICA REBORN AND THE DREAM FULFILLED!!!

[charles royer]

Come back Gene Roddenberry we need you!

[Mangus Colorado]

Charles our scientists have their heads in the tax payer money box and can no longer see the truth on the green green color of money at any cost to their personal reputations.

[M]

The real questions are; who is actually behind the mess, Who will benefit most from it, and is there any way we can derail the juggernaut?

[Mangus Colorado]

Those who support the peak earth concept do not want economic progress and they fight all progress. Want to raise wages to limit numbers. Anti GMO foods, anti fertilizers, anti fishing, anti feed live stock for meat.

Technology keeps beating them out so they are now anti science if you look. The far left always talks about what they are doing like anti science accusations on global warming deniers. What ever they say the right is doing you can bet they are the ones behind the curtain.

[Jesse E Jackson]

To undersimplify things if that is even a word, who can weld, fabricate, build, and dream any more ? We forfeit everything when we know no known skills. 

If you want to know life, take care of some, a chicken coup, a garden, an small orchard, raise a pig or cow for food, 

Learn the balance of life.

Or , sit on your butt and wait for the balance of life to tilt in your favor. Wait for central planning to do it for you. When the central planning goes bad, or the planer makes a bad decision for good intention or nefarious reason, suffer the result, but without insult.