Those jobs are all getting automated. And jobs that used to pay decent wages like trucking and being a taxi driver are slotted to be automated away, too.
Same for many, many white collar jobs that were supposed to be the path out of this trap of poverty that the rust belt and other places were thrown into, starting in the 70s. A whole lot of MBAs think that they need to get rid of all the “excess” people on payroll…
As someone with a factory job, I agree. Admittedly I have a degree, and I’m doing supply chain work in an office, but a 75k setup machinist or CNC programmer job is pretty good compared to spending 100 grand in student loans to make 75K as an office drone.
I wouldn’t advise anyone drop out of medical school to run a packaging line in a factory, but there are a lot of people who do pretty well. You land in a union shop or an ESOP and you can make real money.
Low pay, terrible work condition
start with yourself, bitch. give your money to charity and we’ll find you a nice line job at a meat packing plant.
jensen huang, finding success for you will mean avoiding the guillotine.
Fuck that piece of shit. I hope the AI bubble bursts soon and he loses his job and money. Has to work in a factory in unsafe conditions, gets into a horrible accident, becomes paralyzed and shits and pisses in his pants for the rest of his lives.
UBI really needed to happen before AI and advanced robots. Really interested to see how China handles this.
I remember telling people about UBI and the coming automation and the possibility of AI coming for a lot of jobs. I’ve been saying this kind of thing since early to mid-00s, if not the 90s. People looked at me like I was crazy, for the most part.
It’s not like I’m all that prescient or brilliant or anything…I just happen to read.
Even now, when it’s very obviously eating into jobs, there are lots of people still mostly following celebrity gossip and doing fantasy football picks or whatever and still seemingly oblivious…
It’s not like I’m all that prescient or brilliant or anything…I just happen to read.
Yup.
It’s always “No one could have predicted this.”
That would be great if we didn’t treat factory workers like the dirt on the bottom of our collective shoes. Every factory I’ve ever worked in has been depressing at best and abusive at worst, none of them ever made me feel successful.
Get fucked, you thief!
I don’t disagree with this take but coming out of this billionaires mouth I feel he means it in a different way.
Guaranteed he does mean it in a different way, that people should come work for his suppliers like TSMC at substandard wages only to be discarded and laid off in a few years when markets and demand shifts elsewhere.
He should prove it to us.
Put your money where your mouth is, bitch.
Hey, let’s get those factory jobs paying 50 to 75 dollars an hour and we have a deal. Otherwise, goan fuck yourself.
With poor labor protections and shitty health care, factory jobs aren’t what they were 50 years ago. It’s a work-until-you-die career.
Let’s just ignore the massive wage suppression and consolidation of assets and whatever. Let’s ignore the fragility that’s been intentionally created in the supply chain with staffing levels and anti transit legislation.
Let’s ignore everything but capital investment and long term reliability plans. If you look at the current state of manufacturing in most places and do a hard assessment on how much they are putting back into facilities to keep them running efficiently. Now you easily sum up a response to this with a very effective: LOL fuckwit.
Cool, you first bro.
Lead by examples, techbros!
Gonna start paying factory workers six figures are you? If not piss off!
