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The crime rate, especially drug crime, decreases significantly when more 16-44 year olds have access to affordable Vocational Education and Training, (VET) according to a new University of Melbourne report.
Drug crime rate decreased 13 per cent when more people had access to a publicly-funded place in VET. The research also recorded a five percent and 11 per cent decrease in personal and property crime respectively, including assault, theft and burglary.
Report author, Dr Cain Polidano from the Melbourne Institute found that the extra public funding of VET (TAFE and private colleges) reduced the costs of crime.
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(Score: 2, Disagree) by The Mighty Buzzard on Friday July 29 2016, @10:12AM
Some jobs are easily mechanized, yes. Most skilled trades though are cheaper to keep paying hourly humans indefinitely for and some skilled trades will never be mechanized.
Example, it will never be worth the cost of 3d printing yourself a plumbing robot vs hiring a skilled plumber for an hour.
No, not even when your 3d printer is actually capable of printing circuits on computer chips (kinda necessary for any version of robot-topia), which will be a very long time from now.
Also, resources are not infinite nor are they all home recyclable by any stretch of the imagination, so you will be paying for them. You'll also likely be charged a recycling fee for any printed objects you don't want to store indefinitely as well.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 29 2016, @10:49AM
some skilled trades will never be mechanized
The job of court jester or staff troll will never be replaced by a toilet paper roll with a sharks+lasers joke printed on it.
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Friday July 29 2016, @11:18AM
Indeed, Bender aside, robots are not funny.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Azuma Hazuki on Friday July 29 2016, @04:18PM
No, they're not, but I need to give you credit for trying.
God, you're to fucking typical. I knew, just KNEW, your idiotic "well I did X Y and Z back when I was a young shit golem, why can't everyone else?" was going to get smeared all over this thread. newsflash, shithead: it ain't the 70s no more. Purchasing power of the dollar has dropped incredibly low, almost as bad as World War II era if I remember right. I have TWO jobs, and still make barely $25K a year pre-tax, and this is WITH a hard-science degree (which is being used in neither...).
The times, they have a-changed. Yes, I'd have more money for myself if I weren't doing all that anti-human-trafficking stuff, but you know what? That kind of selfishness is what lead to all this in the first place.
I realize that your kind are characterized by a kind of ahistorical solipsism, and that there is no saving you; I will, however, point out these pathological thought patterns for the benefit of all watching who know you're full of shit but can't, or can't be bothered, to articulate why.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 29 2016, @02:55PM
Why print one yourself if you only need it for an hour. Just hire someone else's robot.
Maybe your building, street, town or whatever can all chip in 20c and get a robot drain cleaner. There goes a large percentage of plumbing jobs.
Of course robots will never be able to join pipes together. It would take some kind of magic welding robot. And we all know how far into the future that will be.
(Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Friday July 29 2016, @03:47PM
Example, it will never be worth the cost of 3d printing yourself a plumbing robot vs hiring a skilled plumber for an hour.
For repairs to old houses, sure. But, once they start 3d-printing the whole house why wouldn't they 3d-print the pipes as well?
(Score: 2) by Bobs on Friday July 29 2016, @04:05PM
Yes, but...
one of my neighbors is a plumber. He used to make good money during the construction boom a few years ago but not so much anymore, largely because of tech:
Much of new plumbing is mostly simple, flexible screw (or worst case glue) together plastic tubes. You don't need a lot of skill / experience to deal with installing or even replacing it. The opportunities for high-skill, "well-paid" plumbers are shrinking rapidly. The work is being done faster (so pays less), requires no special tools and is often getting done by lower-paid, lower skill people.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 29 2016, @04:45PM
and some skilled trades will never be mechanized.
We have no idea how sophisticated robots will even get.
(Score: 2) by Gravis on Saturday July 30 2016, @12:37AM
maskless lithography [wikipedia.org] is already a thing and yes, you can buy small kiosks that make chips, so "a very long time from now" is just incorrect.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 30 2016, @01:14AM
We have this thing called software now, and multi-purpose computers.
Or if you're are real cheapskate plug in wireless comms and do it all in the cloud.
It's a complete strawman anyway. Robot-topia can still have factories to make the robots. No need to do any of that by yourself, unless it's just for fun.