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posted by CoolHand on Wednesday April 29 2015, @05:19PM   Printer-friendly
from the show-me-the-money dept.

The "real" challenge technology presents isn't that it replaces workers, but rather displaces them.

The robots perform tasks that humans previously performed. The fear is that they are replacing human jobs, eliminating work in distribution centers and elsewhere in the economy. It is not hard to imagine that technology might be a major factor causing persistent unemployment today and threatening “more to come.”

Surprisingly, the managers of distribution centers and supply chains see things rather differently: in surveys they report that they can’t hire enough workers, at least not enough workers who have the necessary skills to deal with new technology. “Supply chain” is the term for the systems used to move products from suppliers to customers. Warehouse robots are not the first technology taking over some of the tasks of supply chain workers, nor are they even seen as the most important technology affecting the industry today.

http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2015/04/scarce-skills-not-scarce-jobs/390789/

 
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  • (Score: 4, Interesting) by tathra on Thursday April 30 2015, @12:47AM

    by tathra (3367) on Thursday April 30 2015, @12:47AM (#176884)

    Still bullshit to let humans starve.

    seriously. if there is literally not enough meaningful work for everyone, and even less in the very near future, why does everyone still insist that "working" remain a requirement for survival? if the policy is to remain "work or starve, homeless on the streets" then we really need to start executing the unemployed, because even that is less sociopathic than forcing people to slowly suffer and die because there is no job for them to work so they can buy food and shelter.

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