The Robots are Coming!

[leo-rcc]

I agree that a lot of the tedious repetitive tasks associated with low paying jobs will eventually be done by robots. Looking at it form the perspective of the employer, I too would prefer a robot that does its job without all the drawbacks of human labour. It does mean that other jobs are becoming available, like installation and maintenance of robots and programming them (which is not that hard, any person can do that with a little bit of training) but that still will not cover all the persons that will be out of a job. When in the past you could say "Well we can always go and flip burgers for the clown" even that is going to be less and less a certainty.

Like it or not, and I know it sucks for those who are not qualified or able to get different jobs, it is not the responsibility of a business to provide jobs. Jobs are born out of necessity, if there is no need for that job, a business owner will not risk his bottom line to provide one.