Why havent this issue been on the news?? i mean, who is doing most work at factories to day? man or machine. Machines are. It aint odd that people cant find jobs. Today i saw the garbage truck picking up the garbage. Last year they had 3 guys standing in the back of the truck. this year its a robotic arm picking up the garbage and there for 3guys propably lost their jobs. Why aint this issue raised? can capitalism survive if the machines does most off the industrial work?sorry about the bad english
Cities and towns award garbage pickup contracts to the low bidder so those who bid high likely used manual pickup.The cost savings to the cities and towns results in lower taxes to homeowners who use these savings to purchase more food, clothing, home improvements, etc which put more people to work to supply these additional purchased gooda and services. So there likely is no net loss in jobs. Automation to reduce the cost of american made goods and services so that they are more competative with foreign made goods actually preserves jobs in the U S because the additional foreign purchases of American made goods increases the need for american workers to make these additional US made goods. We must learn how to keep the sale of our goods abroad equal or more than our purchase of foreign goods or we will surely lose more jobs. Since our labor costs/ hr are much greater, the only alternative is to reduce the man-hours to make products for sale abroad. Cheep foreign goods benefit the poor and middle class since the money they save by buying the cheeper foreign goods allows them to have more money to spend on other essentials made in america..
First, don't sweat it. This is yahoo answers, not ask a grammar nazi convention. Any old yahoo can give you his $0.02 for 2 points. Can you go around blaming machines? Sure. Back when light bulbs were invented, people that used to go through town and light lamps were out of a job. Plumbing destroyed the water carrying industry. People spent their entire lives training to be expert swordsmen before the rifle made them obsolete. And you can bet people complained each and every time technology put them out of a job. But today, people make light bulbs, pipes, and rifles. And people make, repair, and use our machines in factories. This kind of unemployment - John Henry I like to call it, and it's older than dirt - is never very high, but that's no comfort if it happened to you, right? This might be though: that swordsman that picks up a rifle will be a better soldier than anyone else, even though he might not be the best marksman. What I'm saying, is that if you've got skills, and the world changes, you've still got skills, you just need to find a new way to use them.
Yes and a bunch of mule skinners lost their jobs when the railroads started hauling freight. When automobiles started selling the blacksmiths lost a lot of business. Stage coach drivers went into low demand when passenger trains started running. I have heard that in New York it is illegal for a home builder to install garbage disposal units in new homes. That is to protect union garbage collectors.
