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One In Three Jobs Will Be Taken By Software Or Robots By 2025, Says Gartner
dcblogs writes: "Gartner predicts one in three jobs will be converted to software, robots and smart machines by 2025," said Peter Sondergaard, Gartner's research director at its big Orlando conference. "New digital businesses require less labor; machines will make sense of data faster than humans can," he said. Smart machines are an emerging "super class" of technologies that perform a wide variety of work, both the physical and the intellectual kind. Machines, for instance, have been grading multiple choice test for years, but now they are grading essays and unstructured text. This cognitive capability in software will extend to other areas, including financial analysis, medical diagnostics and data analytic jobs of all sorts, says Gartner. "Knowledge work will be automated."
Oh my god, do you honestly believe that companies do anything out of 'goodness of heart' rather than because it makes sense economically? The time in America when it made sense economically to offer benefits that included pensions, etc has long gone. Today in America the only thing that makes sense economically is to fire all employees and hire them somewhere else while using the fact that the Fed feels it needs to prop up the housing, stock and bond markets by creating extraordinary amounts of fiat (fake currency, not money) and if you are lucky enough to be on the good side of the government you can participate in this wealth transfer from those, who hold US dollars and bonds to those, who get their hands on the newly minted currency (even if only electronic) that dilutes the total value of all US denominated holdings in the world.
Let's put it this way: if USA economy was actually healthy today, which means if there was actual free market in operation, if there was actual free market capitalism in operation, there would have been plenty of competition for the employees just like decades ago and it would have been enough incentive for companies to offer various benefits, including pensions to decrease turnover.
In today's climate it makes 0 (ZERO) sense to hire Americans to do anything. You want to hire an American? Prepare to be fucked in the ass by all government and quasi government organisations and all courts, everything is against you as an employer. The DUMBEST THING somebody can do in USA is hire an American.
You can't handle the truth.
You started a business, good for you, I started more than one.
Capitalism is ownership and operation of property and there will be no time on this planet that I will ever agree with anybody that somehow ownership and operation of property is the wrong thing, I like owning and operating my own body and my business and work output is extension of my own body, it takes my own time and effort and it translates my life on this planet into what I do and thus into money that I make and AFAIC theft (including taxes and inflation and business regulations) is always a personal attack on an individual life and there is nothing moral or right or economically good about it.
Slavery was a bad economic system that is why it died out not because of wars or government rules. Slavery died out because free people make better workers. Economically it is better to have free people deciding what they are going to do and where they will work and how they will spend their own money (output of their own lives). Today many if not most governments and nations are ran in such a way that turns a thinking, working individual into a slave of the system and it is wrong, AFAIC, on every level, starting with it being absolutely immoral. AFAIC life of another individual does not belong to anybody but to him or her self, neither does their economic and creative output.
What USA and many other countries have is a horrendous mix of socialism and fascism, where socialism is what is promised and what the masses are voting for (wrongly and immorally) but what is actually delivered is fascism (wrongly and immorally).
I will not agree that 2 wrongs make 1 right.
As to "having enough money for affordable health care for every single person", I agree, there is enough money. What I absolutely disagree with is that the money should be stolen in form of taxes, inflation and regulations to give anybody anything at all, including healthcare.
Your words "we have" to me sounds very simply like this: we steal.
You can't handle the truth.