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/
(Score: 2) by tathra on Thursday April 30 2015, @01:05AM
they drove the ship onto the inevitable path to destruction over the past 30+ years by continually re-electing the same representatives that continued to fuck them over, and by not calling out gerrymandering as the bullshit that it is the very first time it happened. US citizens happily gave away their influence, and most of them don't even want it back unless it could be used to make a couple bucks.