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Related: About this forumWorkers of the 21st Century meet your replacement.
Over the next ten years 50 million workers in in the USA will be replaced by robots and AI.
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Workers of the 21st Century meet your replacement. (Original Post)
Sam_Fields
Feb 2016
OP
How long until they can stock shelves for 8-hours at the local Kwik-E-Mart? n/t
PoliticAverse
Feb 2016
#2
TheSocialDem
(191 posts)1. its like rocky
just keeps getting up
PoliticAverse
(26,366 posts)2. How long until they can stock shelves for 8-hours at the local Kwik-E-Mart? n/t
saturnsring
(1,832 posts)3. just great - our new postal carriers
world wide wally
(21,754 posts)4. Do they come with opposing thumbs?
elmac
(4,642 posts)5. Its about time!
looking forward to living in that futuristic utopia I've been reading about for decades where robots do all the work so we can play and sit by the pool drinking margaritas. You betcha!
rpannier
(24,333 posts)6. I'm more inclined to believe
Most people will be living outside walled communities scrimping to get what little they can to eke out a marginal existance, while the wealthy control water, food, etc
elmac
(4,642 posts)7. That pretty much discribes the USA today
at least where I live
Skittles
(153,182 posts)8. creepy