So Metal you think Beef Farmers will be out of jobs in 20 years and Robots will be the new farmers. Lets expand on that...
Let say for a moment that your statement is 100% true that Robots will be in control of beef farming in the future. I made the statement that technology increases productivity in the fact that robots can work 24-7-365 this is a true statement. Robots do not need health insurance, do not get pregnant, come to work late, take smoke breaks or go on FMLA or have slip and fall accidents at work. So if your statement were to be true, robots would be a more efficient way to slaughter cattle and help increase production and help feed more people I would argue.
Now as for the jobs angle, people have to build the robots in state of the art factories, perform maintenance, write the programming and even build the machines that build the robots. Then you have to transport them to the slaughter house and farms. More jobs are created, and more people being fed because of the increase in productivity than just people with simple hand tools slaughtering cattle.
If technology did not increase productivity people would be digging ditches with spoons instead of excavators and bull dozers. Again people have to build, maintain and service the bull dozers. More jobs created, just in different capacities.
I suggest you read Henry Hazlitts Economics in One Lesson. Also read anything Von Mises, Murray Rothbard, Thomas Sowell, and best of all ANYTHING Milton Freedman.
It's funny how much right wing ppl will defend farmers, and now the opinion is completely changed. I didn't say it will destroy all jobs, there WILL be less jobs. Take the hypothetical 100 farmers to the now 80 'robot maintenance and machine runners' that's a drop. Take the 100 people it took to dig a huge hole to the now 1 person it takes to run the backhoe. OK now there will be maintenance and production of that vehicle, it will still never account for the numbers. Which is not a bad thing in whole bc who wants to do that slave labor, its just simply used as an example.
All I see is jobs disappearing left and right, and the only 'new' jobs being created are low wage.
Instead of having 10 RN's making $25 bucks an hour on a floor they will have 1 RN 1 LPN and 3 CNA's with the CNA makin half the RN's wage and the LPN in the middle= lss money out put, less jobs, less spending money----this is not an opinion based figure.
Instead of paying Radiologic Technologists their wages they get by by having the lower paid MA do 'part' of the job again at half the wage and ppl spendig less money---- again fact not a maybe.
****Now we also have obesity considered a disease process, what does this mean?
Unemployed ppl with half a brain will get fat and collect a disability check which equals less ppl making money, and insurance laying out more which equals regular peoples insurance premiums to go up
As well as
Health care workers not being able to maintain there 'time frames' to get procedures done bc the typical 5 foot tall lady is no longer 110 lbs but 300 lbs, so this gives reason for companies to fire the 10 year hired paid employee in states like mine for not keeping the time frame in the range they want, and hiring the constantly growing line of awaiting new staff to make 15% less money and do the same job, ad when they dont work out it goes back into that same cycle.
The only thing I foresee pulling us out of this huge rut (sadly) is a War, generating jobs and possibly (lets say for example going to war w China) eliminating our debt to that Country, or (like the last 20 years) going into war to take a strong hold on a valuable fossil fuel.
I do not intend this to argue, I really do not.
It scares the hell out of me bc this is what I predict happening.
I am not a farmer, that doesn't directly effect me.
I am not a trench digger, so same thing.
I just am seeing less and less jobs at a stagnant wage with costs of everything around it rising at a consistent level = less money for the individual.
There is almost no advocating bodies for employees anymore, and when you speak of them the general population wants to string you up.
I would love to hear anyone's opinions, or much more so facts, to enlighten me into a more positive train of thought. I don't want to have a negative out look but I do as of now, everything is looking bleak to me.
Cheno you live in a place where individual business's can do very well, everyone I know with one works over the taxes and makes out very well, they do work hard though. As far as careers go it doesn't look good. When everyone starts jumping on the band wagon for landscaping or what have you, than the bidding gets way worse, but more people can afford to get more things.
Thank you for your input, and let's keep it on this level, please everyone. I am too tired for the pissing match point finger stuff.
