Comments by "Tony Wilson" (@tonywilson4713) on "Ignorant Congresswoman Knows Nothing About Anything" video.

  1. Actually the lowest paid jobs are the last that will be replaced by robots and automation. I know I am an engineer who has worked in automation for 30+ years. The jobs that are most often replaced are jobs nobody wants to do or jobs that have a high risk of injury or its simply more productive to have the robot do part of the job like put its hand where the human doesn't want to like the inside of a power press or injection molding machine where they can lose that hand in a blink. Right now the people most at risk from automation are the university graduates with degrees in the financial areas - accounting, economics,.... etc. Accountants wont be needed in future, we already have software that's faster & cheaper. Economists will become totally irrelevant as they will never be as fast as the software can be at analysis. Stockbrokers & Financial consultants are even worse of as who will actually need them. In future stockbrokers and financial consultants will be down to very clever traders in basements making second by second trades for groups of people. They'll trade globally 24/7. It already works that way for the main players, but with computers and automation - guess what. My recommendation is don't do a business degree unless its a dual degree with IT. As for the rest of engineering we aren't going anywhere. All those computers need electricity and someone needs to build the power stations and networks and then keep them running. In fact the next generation of automation technology will be our revenge on the financial clowns for fucking with our careers.
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