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Topic	Controversial Opinion #4: Automation
LinkPizza 04/03/21 11:03:11 AM #22:	blu posted... Do you suggest we get rid of alarm clocks, refrigerators, elevator buttons, bowling pin placers and ball returns, street cleaners, word documents/printing shouldnt have been invented? Maybe but probably not, as they all had a great upside to them and peoples current jobs depend on them. Do you suggest we stop making new inventions? Lets go further back to inventions that cost a huge number of jobs (and youve addressed just because its happened, doesnt mean it should again). Airplane. Cars. Batteries. Light Bulbs. Vaccines. Printing Press. Calendars. Compass. Wheels. Should the next thing in this line not be made for the disruption itll cause? Should we say life is good enough, the status quo among people is fine, stop trying to make life easier? We can't get rid of them now. They're already part of our culture. And unless we get sent back to some pre-technology era due to some kind of destructive event, people aren't going to let us "take away" this technology. Also, only rich people paid people to wake them up. Normal people most likely didn't do this. Like certain farmers had east facing window. Or just woke up at the same time everyday, which in something that happens these days, as well... Or you could have a rooster... And you don't need to stop making new inventions altogether. Just stop making the ones that takes people's jobs away. For example, self-checkout takes a job away. But when conveyor belts were put into stores, the cashier kept their job. The conveyor belts helped to speed things up. it's helps, and the person keeps their job. Technology isn't bad... It's the technology that takes jobs that make things worse... You can make people's lives easier. But taking away their source of income actually makes people's live harder, just incase you didn't know... blu posted... Thats pretty much all of the technology. And if you want to do that...then you have to remove the jobs of the people whose jobs it is to make the new technology. People end up changing jobs or reskilling. The problem is also...everyone has to subscribe for the philosophy of no new tech and really crack down on those who make it. Efficient companies will drive inefficient companies out of business unless theres something the inefficient companies can give (like the feeling of exclusiveness or moral superiority or a unique experience), and then jobs will be cost by NOT adopting the new technologies. No it's not. Not all technology takes jobs away. Many pieces of technology help others instead of hurt them. Like when I mentioned the conveyor belt. It helps without taking away a job. So, no. You don't have to take away their jobs... As long as they aren't taking away other people's job... The problem is that not everyone has to subscribe. Just the majority... And jobs are usually safer by not adopting the new technology. Had we not adopted to self-checkout lines, many cashiers would still have jobs... But adopting self-checkout, many have actually lost their jobs, just to let you know... --- Official King of Kings Switch FC: 7216-4417-4511 Add Me because I'll probably add you. I'm probably the LinkPizza you'll see around. <cite>LinkPizza posted [p:952420043] in Controvers... [t:79384298]...</cite> <quote>blu posted...</cite> <quote>Do you suggest we get rid of alarm clocks, refrigerators, elevator buttons, bowling pin placers and ball returns, street cleaners, word documents/printing shouldnt have been invented? Maybe but probably not, as they all had a great upside to them and peoples current jobs depend on them. Do you suggest we stop making new inventions? Lets go further back to inventions that cost a huge number of jobs (and youve addressed just because its happened, doesnt mean it should again). Airplane. Cars. Batteries. Light Bulbs. Vaccines. Printing Press. Calendars. Compass. Wheels. Should the next thing in this line not be made for the disruption itll cause? Should we say life is good enough, the status quo among people is fine, stop trying to make life easier?</quote> We can't get rid of them now. They're already part of our culture. And unless we get sent back to some pre-technology era due to some kind of destructive event, people aren't going to let us "take away" this technology. Also, only rich people paid people to wake them up. Normal people most likely didn't do this. Like certain farmers had east facing window. Or just woke up at the same time everyday, which in something that happens these days, as well... Or you could have a rooster... And you don't need to stop making new inventions altogether. Just stop making the ones that takes people's jobs away. For example, self-checkout takes a job away. But when conveyor belts were put into stores, the cashier kept their job. The conveyor belts helped to speed things up. it's helps, and the person keeps their job. Technology isn't bad... It's the technology that takes jobs that make things worse... You can make people's lives easier. But taking away their source of income actually makes people's live harder, just incase you didn't know... blu posted...</cite> <quote>Thats pretty much all of the technology. And if you want to do that...then you have to remove the jobs of the people whose jobs it is to make the new technology. People end up changing jobs or reskilling. The problem is also...everyone has to subscribe for the philosophy of no new tech and really crack down on those who make it. Efficient companies will drive inefficient companies out of business unless theres something the inefficient companies can give (like the feeling of exclusiveness or moral superiority or a unique experience), and then jobs will be cost by NOT adopting the new technologies.</quote> No it's not. Not all technology takes jobs away. Many pieces of technology help others instead of hurt them. Like when I mentioned the conveyor belt. It helps without taking away a job. So, no. You don't have to take away their jobs... As long as they aren't taking away other people's job... The problem is that not everyone has to subscribe. Just the majority... And jobs are usually safer by not adopting the new technology. Had we not adopted to self-checkout lines, many cashiers would still have jobs... But adopting self-checkout, many have actually lost their jobs, just to let you know... --- Official King of Kings Switch FC: 7216-4417-4511 Add Me because I'll probably add you. I'm probably the LinkPizza you'll see around.</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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