What happens when you can be replaced by a machine that can do everything you can, but better, for longer, and cheaper. Well that's what's starting to happen now to us as we progress further as a society and unskilled labourers become less important.That's why I want to talk about this and how it will effect society when lower classes start to lose their jobs.
I think the biggest effect this will have on society will be in the education system. If lower class workers become obselete then their children in public schools will start to show this. What would most likely happen is that as the idea of secondary education becomes more and more necessary to live, governments would recognize this and cheaper college would become more of a reality. The next generation will be more educated than the last creating a new standard for unskilled workers.
Politicals there would probably be a larger shift in governments learning to the left on labour issues. This would not however mean that the government would be left wing, political parties change all the time, after all JFK was a Democrat who was a member of the NRA and a strong believer in controlled immigration with a vetting process.
Economally, if all unskilled labourers were to be removed from a business, there would probably be a boost in the economy temporarily as robots work 24/7 for free and cheaper than a normal worker. However this boost would not last as more skilled labourer would be needed to maintain machines and to do things only humans can do.
So whether a world without unskilled labourers would actually happen soon is undecided, but know that the world will most likely end up better if it does.
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I think a flatten structure goes beyond 'SKILL', it has more to do with accuracy, precision, time and cost.
Most organizations want to cut cost, hence, the need for robots. While, on the other hand experts are more expensive to hire and not as efficient as robots.
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As mechanical labor is replaced by machines, more emphasis will be placed on creativity, decision-making, critical thinking, and other "mental" labor in the workforce.
While machines can do pretty much any mechanical task (including build and repair machines), they can't think ... yet.
While a push for "secondary education" may occur, it's important that we re-think education. Instead of "mechanical" education where we learn to follow directions and memorize facts and tasks, we need to start teaching young people to think, create, and challenge the norms. The progression of technology will require cultivation of human invention and imagination if we are to survive.
I said a bit more about it here (the following has reached it's "payout" so I don't benefit from the self promo);
https://steemit.com/business/@timeshiftarts/robots-low-wages-and-lack-of-skills-what-s-killing-the-workforce
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We have been replaced by robots already in many production tasks. Car factories have very few workers.
Containerisation of ship cargo killed off the dock workers in just a couple of years.
Office automation (Microsoft Office et al.) destroyed millions of well-paid office jobs.
The list is endless and growing all the time.
Low skilled labour is no longer needed and the need to educate their children is slipping away. In 10 years time, there may be no need to educate poor children in developed economies. The rich will, of course, educate their children and so they will reep the rewards.
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