The gap between the rich and the poor is getting bigger because of computers
@Khatete (6)
December 20, 2019 4:26am CST
I think the gap between the rich and the poor is getting bigger because of computers. People do not want to employ and pay people for a job that they can get a computer do for them more efficiently without asking pay. Therefore they make huge profits and incurr less expenses that require putting money into other peoples pocket. If the trend goes on like this I think we might reach a point where we have 2 percent rich and and 98 percent poor people. This is because it is only few rich who can afford the required capital to set up big companies and all that poor people can sell is labour, if that labour is not needed because the rich invest in robots and computers such as automated trucks, cars and industries where do the poor earn from?
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@Genipher (5405)
• United States
20 Dec 19
Meh. I tend to disagree. Computers can't take over the jobs of construction workers, plumbers, chefs, musicians, sports players, daycare workers, doctors, lawyers, firefighters, police officers, mechanics, computer repair workers (ironically), postal delivery, garbage pick up, janitors...
Now it may be that someday in the far future robots/AI might take over everything but until that day comes, people can concentrate on obtaining the above mentioned jobs and make pretty good money doing them.
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@Genipher (5405)
• United States
21 Dec 19
@sharonelton
I've been hearing that for awhile, too. Though there are some things a drone couldn't lift so I would assume people would still be needed to deliver larger items.
For some reason this is reminding me of Monty Python: "A five ounce bird cannot carry a one pound coconut!"
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@sharonelton (30756)
• Lichfield, England
21 Dec 19
I heard somewhere they were thinking of getting drones to deliver packages.
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@ExplorewtMe (6332)
• Nairobi, Kenya
20 Dec 19
Don't you think if you can sell your labour, isin't it you chanalise your labour where it is required. Like If the requirements of computer and robots are increasing then the labour required to make those machines and supporting these machines to run is also in demands.
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@Khatete (6)
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20 Dec 19
The problem is even the computers are being developed to solve their own problems through machine learning. What this means is that very few people even with that technology will be able to get employed. A company that would have employed 5000 people may end up with just ten computer specialists.
@sharonelton (30756)
• Lichfield, England
21 Dec 19
You need to start small and then expand. A lot of today's millionaires started with a market stall or something like that.
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