GM is taking a giant step into future tech with its new self-driving car that has no steering wheel and no brake pedal. Will the public accept such a startling lack of control? Many would want their self-driving car to have a “Manual” button that allowed a human to take charge. It’s not like computers […]
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January 21st, 2018 | Category: replacing workers with smart machines | Tags: automation, cabbie, General Motors, immigrants, job displacement, poll, ride-sharing, robot, self-driving cars, self-driving poll, taxi drivers, workers |
 Email This Post |  Print This Post The Big Lie of the Democrat Party is that it stands for the working American while also supporting open borders and unlimited immigration: both cannot be true because a surplus of labor always results in lowered wages. May Day is supposed to underline solidarity with worker rights and wages, but lately not so much. It seems clear that […] May 2nd, 2017 | Category: replacing American workers with cheap foreign labor | Tags: aliens, amnesty, cost, Democrats, illegal alien workers, immigrant workers, immigration, job displacement, May Day, workers |
Email This Post | Print This Post Young people are particularly hard hit by the increased automation of business, since they need a first job to learn the basic skills of showing up on time, taking directions and pleasing the boss. Increasingly those basic first jobs — like waiter or pizza delivery driver — are being done by machines. One indicator is a […] December 22nd, 2016 | Category: replacing workers with smart machines | Tags: automation, immigration, job displacement, jobs, robot, smart machines, workers |
Email This Post | Print This Post It’s actually a little breathtaking how rapidly the self-driving car thing has taken off, once the important people and companies decided it was going to be a thing, and the smart money needed to get in and establish a beachhead. The Singapore operation is starting out small, with half a dozen cabs in a limited area […] August 25th, 2016 | Category: replacing workers with smart machines | Tags: automation, drivers, immigration, job displacement, robot, self-driving cars, workers |
Email This Post | Print This Post I’ve reported earlier about the robot security guard. The Knightscope machine is a 300-pound snoop-bot that scoots around parking lots, recording license plates and other useful data. The security robot is large and imposing, although it is not capable of aggressive action against bad behavior other than setting off an alarm. What’s interesting about a recent report from […] July 5th, 2016 | Category: replacing workers with smart machines | Tags: automation, cost, immigration, job displacement, robot, smart machine, workers |
Email This Post | Print This Post It wasn’t that long ago that the gig economy of independent contractors performing services was hailed as the hip new way of work. One such job has been people operating their own cars as taxis using ride-sharing aps on their smart phones to connect with riders. However, technology is moving rapidly these days, and the ride-share […] May 19th, 2016 | Category: replacing workers with smart machines | Tags: automation, immigration, robot, self-driving car, taxi, workers |
Email This Post | Print This Post On Monday, Governor Jerry Brown signed legislation to raise the state’s minimum wage gradually to $15 in 2022, even though he admitted, “Economically, minimum wages may not make sense.” Jerry isn’t stupid: he knows how California was among the hardest hit by the great recession in terms of employment returning. Plus, the governor must be aware […] April 6th, 2016 | Category: replacing workers with smart machines | Tags: agriculture, automation, California, cost, immigration, Jerry Brown, job displacement, robot, smart machine, unemployment, workers |
Email This Post | Print This Post Last June I reported on the Uber ride-sharing service planning to move into self-driving taxis. Now there is news that a competitor is being pumped up by a serious cash injection from General Motors. Below, Google self-driving prototype cars have been scooting around Silicon Valley during the testing program. The Wall Street Journal video explained the GM […] January 4th, 2016 | Category: replacing workers with smart machines | Tags: automation, cabs, immigration, job loss, jobs, robot, self-driving cars, self-driving trucks, smart machine, taxi, technological unemployment, workers |
Email This Post | Print This Post A Pew study (The American Middle Class Is Losing Ground) released on Wednesday found that the number of Americans living in a middle-class household had fallen to below half. That’s a major event, because America is supposed to be a middle-class nation, not like backward countries such as Brazil where the great majority of people are […] December 13th, 2015 | Category: economic globalization | Tags: aliens, automation, immigration, job displacement, middle class, robot, workers |
Email This Post | Print This Post Last spring, we learned that Disney, the fabled story-teller of moral goodness for children, axed its American IT department so it could replace them with cheaper Indian workers. The citizens were forced to train their foreign replacements or else lose their severance package. The Americans were also supposed to keep quiet about how shabbily they […] October 28th, 2015 | Category: replacing American workers with immigrants | Tags: aliens, Congress, Disney, employment, H-1b, immigration, job displacement, jobs, workers |
Email This Post | Print This Post As Washington plods along with its 20th century assumptions regarding labor and the economy, the technology-fueled future is here and changing all the rules. Just when we have adjusted to the idea that cars are produced by a robot factory with few humans, now the 3D printer is being rejiggered to build autos. That concept shouldn’t […] August 7th, 2015 | Category: replacing workers with smart machines | Tags: automation, immigration, jobless recovery, jobs, robot, unemployment, workers |
Email This Post | Print This Post The “Weird Hotel” in Sansebo still has some bugs to be solved, and the rollout was inclined to gimmicks designed to attract the sensation-seeking media, but the business does show the future. How gimmicky is it? Well, the English-speaking desk clerk is a bizarro dinosaur robot. Really. The Japanese-speaking clerk is a cutesy humanoid robot. The Japanese people […] July 15th, 2015 | Category: replacing workers with smart machines | Tags: American workers, amnesty, automation, computers, immigration, job displacement, jobs, smart machines, software, workers |
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