Google robot is 'the end of manual labor'

[EdwardBernays]

71. I don't think everything will be wonderful

unless we fight for it to be... that's what I keep saying. We must start talking about this now and figuring out what we want the future to look like or we're screwed. That's my opinion.

I don't think people can predict the future, but I DO think that the way capitalism - especially corporatism - works is that growth comes before everything else. That's it's engine. The only way to drive up growth is a world with stagnant wages is to lower prices. And to do that you have to lower costs.

Low cost manufacturing, by offshoring, has almost run it's course, unless the Chinese can ever manage to get African manufacturing online... and even then...

So other solutions are being found.

automation is basically legalised slavery... free work.. it does DRAMATICALLY raise profit where it's been implemented and corporations know this, which is why they invest in it so heavily... small businesses are only in the last 4-5 years truly able to take part... that uptake will dramatically increase, and the outcome will mean collapse for those companies that don't cop on.

Heck over here in Europe it's come to this sort of thing:

http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-34066941