Robots are taking our jobs, but both parties want to import/legalize more workers

 

Our Politicians are Fucking Insane

The Internet, robotics and outsourcing are eliminating millions of jobs, but the morons in both parties insist we need immigration "reform" to legalized and import more workers.

First we have the secret meetings of the bipartisan Gang of Eight to force more immigration down the throats of increasingly impoverished Americans.  Now we see Democrats counting on help from Republican Rep. Paul Ryan, Mitt Romney’s running mate.

Ryan, the House Budget Committee chairman, favors a way out of the "shadows" for the 20 to 30 million immigrants living in the U.S. in violation of the law so they can legally compete with American citizens for a shrinking number of jobs.

We are ruled over by fools and idiots.

We do not need more workers.  Technology is abolishing jobs faster then they can be created.

Fast food chains in Japan, China and Great Britain have begun piloting the use of robots to cook meals. And while robots have been emerging in recent years as a boon for completing menial tasks like dispensing medicines in hospitals, these fast food robots are capable of preparing full sushi rolls or noodle dishes for Asian food outlets. In many cases, customers complete their orders through a touchscreen, which then alerts the robot how to prepare the meal reports Business Insider.

No humans needed.

It stands to reason that American fast food companies will adopt the robots at some point. One new fast food robot is the noodle-slicing "Chef Cui" in China, which as the Associated Press reports, costs restaurateurs 30,000 Chinese Yuan to buy, or $2,000. Comparatively, a human noodle chef is paid about $4,700 a year in China, according to the AP.


Robot chefs taking over China's noodle bars

Rise of the Robots - hi-tech

A report by the McKinsey & Company consulting group says that robots will occupy about one out of every eight commercial service jobs by 2025. And for fields like manufacturing, packing, construction and maintenance, the figure is roughly one in four.
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Robots work on farms
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Robots also are being used in the agricultural process. A group of dairy farmers in NY are using European-made robots and putting them to work milking herds. And as the Associated Press recently reported, robots are entering the "last frontier of agricultural mechanization" -- fruit and vegetable field work.

 Previously, robots were not used for such work, because they weren't sensitive enough with the produce, which led to undesired bruising. The new robots, referred to by names like Lettuce Bot, are now endowed with advanced sensors and high-precision GPS location technologies to ensure the food isn't damaged.

Touch Screens at McDonalds Abolish Jobs.
McDonald's and the Japanese sushi chain, Kura, just installed 7,000 touch-screens throughout Europe, eliminating the need for workers to take customers' orders. Kura, for its part, has been able to fully eliminate cashiers from their workflow.

"Low skill workers will have no place to go.'

In the past year, workers have walked out on their job in seven cities, demanding that their wages -- they usually earn salaries close to the federal minimum wage of $7.25 an hour -- be doubled to $15 an hour. "The saddest thing about this story is that probably ten years from now robots will replace human beings... and low skill workers will have really no place to go," John Curley, a radio host for KIRO-Radio in Seattle, said during a recent report, which looked back on one of the fast food protests that took place in his hometown.

A San Francisco company, called Momentum Machines, already has created a robotic assembly line that can assemble 360 hamburgers an hour. The company says the device could save fast food outlets $135,000 a year in labor costs, according to Digital Trends.

Are droids taking our jobs? 

Robots and algorithms are getting good at jobs like building cars, writing articles, translating -- jobs that once required a human. So what will we humans do for work? Andrew McAfee walks through recent labor data to say: We ain't seen nothing yet.



A Robotic Burger Assembly Line
A San Francisco based company called Momentum Machines have developed a new type of robotic assembly line that can produce approximately 360 hamburgers every hour. Called the Alpha machine, the device has been designed to replace all hamburger cooks within a restaurant or fast food establishment.
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Hypothetically, a fast food restaurant could also place digital touchscreen panels with credit card readers and cash machines at the counter in order to eliminate all cashiers as well.

Read more: Digital Trends.com