The Rise of the Machines - Why Automation is Different this Time
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The bit at the last part of the video much a fantasy. The rich will grow richer, and the poor will grow poorer. Greed is a major component in human behavior and it's more than likely the majority of the rich will not share in their wealth, they will control more and more, and see other humans only as animals. If this does happen, it may be the case that as a species, we may never get passed a point where we all can prosper doing very little. Instead it would become a cycle of revolution, economic decline, followed by the same eventual repeating pattern of the rich rising to power with machines before we tear them down again.
9:20 tou didn't explain why the wages for college grads has declined. The value of the college degree has gone down.
8:55 I would like you to expand why work ouptut hasn't increased with with pay. There's a lot factors that play into it. This doesn't indicate a bad thing.
Your business comparisons don't take into acc. dollar value and it implies that it's a bad thing that companies make more money with less employees than before.
@Kurzgesagt I love your channel but in this video there so many facts glossed over, generalized and overpredicted that an AI could actually do a better job.
Bird Person?! Wow! Not bad, kurzgesagt, very cool!
Vote Andrew Yang 2020! The only candidate addressing these problems in a way that works for all Americans
Brilliantly explained, while really emphasizing the existential crisis we're facing. I'll be keeping this on hand for people who claim that digital automation is risk-free just like past automation!
ANDREW YANG 2020
Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren need to watch this. Raising the minimum wage won't do jackshit if people don't have any jobs in the first place. And raising the minimum wage will only increase unemployment even further by making robots even cheaper than human labor. The only candidate with a real solution is Andrew Yang.
egal
Preach !!!
This is why we need YANG
YANG GANG
@kurzgesagt 7:13 is that a Double King reference?
Mann vs Machine
Vox says that there’s another side to this, that this has happened before and that there’s nothing to be worried about. Kurzgesagt says that it’s different this time, jobs just aren’t being created fast enough. WHOS RIGHT?!
Vox has a pro-establishment bias in politics, so it's in their interest to agree with Warren who denies that automation is a problem. As far as I'm aware, Kurzgesagt doesn't have political affiliations and just reports on interesting facts and ideas.
I want to cite you. May I ask your name?
wall-e irl
YangGang, where you at?
Quang Le
Yang Gang
2020
There is one thing that cannot be automated, even in theory: creativity. Ironically, that means the "poor starving artist" may be more stable than the "corporate businessman" at some point. Assuming the trend continues that far of course.
Andrew Yang 2020!
Its 2019 now, and in far off India, computers still haven't gotten my job...
They will in 20 years
Ra YT Not yet, not yet...
*Laughs in binary*
Skynet but with birbs
What about inflation though ?
beep boop i am here to steal american jobs
Call me in 2025 when almost no jobs have been replaced.
Eric Hartmann
It’s sad but I guess you’re
The type that’s so uneducated that your own lack of access to knowledge deceives you.
Millions of jobs have already been replaced in The USA. I’ll give you one small example.
Look at the field of Manufacturing. Do any research and you’ll find that they have lost many many jobs.
Look into Retail.. that’s another field experience a lot of job loss.
Do you even look at the news man.
Do you know How many layoffs have accrued in the past 4 years across huge corporations due to globalization and automation?
I for one, welcome our new robot overlord
This wont happen to me, my country is poor lol
Get ready for Tech-Priest like rich people controlling all the robots, or not
Companies like it, it costs less money. That’s it thanks.
but athletes will never disappear, and there cant really be too many
We Can Finnaly Abolish Capitalism
While looking at all communist regimes of the 20th century: I think I'm gonna pass on that one😅
Contact me If you got another System that might work
@giThreePi *perfection Yeahs
With what system? Communism?😅
And this is why capitalism is unsustainable. There is an approximately 0% chance that corporations will be interested in the rising levels of inequality as the automation technology available increases, and will instead attempt to make bank while the rest of us starve. And then there will be a tremendous amount of supply without any demand, and as anyone who took high school economics knows, that is extremely, extremely bad. The economy will inevitably collapse, and the US will be forced to migrate away from a capitalist system whether conservatives like it or not. If the wealthy and the right wing resist to hard, this will probably end up happening with a violent revolution, because civility isn't going to matter to anyone anymore when everyone is starving. The scariest part is that, if you're under 60, this could happen within your lifetime. If you're a millennial, it WILL happen during your lifetime.
Kurzgesagt, in the video you forget to mention a few things.
Yes, Google created less jobs than General Motors. However, Google has created a lot more economical and technological value than General Motors.
The invisible hand at work is a lot bigger now and a lot more invisible.
I mean, you "Kurzgesagt", are a product this.
*_"This button will solve all our problems..."_*
If there are no jobs to do. Then there is no consumer for the corporate companies. This would mean , either everything is free for everybody or everything has a price and there's no one who has the money to buy it.
Heres a speculative idea: what if we’re thinking too mundane? What if we keep trying to give ourselves boring easy jobs instead of innovative ones. Imagine a day in age where all the easy work is done for free via automation and humans spend all their time exploring and expanding. Maybe we’ve reached a point where we’re ready for an upgrade. Perhaps we are in a time where the term “superhuman” should be more than science fiction. What i think im getting at here is that jobs typically give us meaning and we’ve found ways that make old jobs meaningless to us. I think its time humans occupy themselves with expansion to the unknown instead of trying to make room for people where we dont need to.
Quite good
Cyberpunk feeling~
Human will be gone, but what if we work with robots
Andrew Yang gets it ...
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You should adjust for inflation. Otherwise your analysis is flawed
Be honest; you're on a Kurzgesagt binge.
i used to have a job making other jobs obsolete, ironically i basically got paid the same as basically all the other employees
maybe on few decades we will find a robot youtuber
I think we need to have a very big think about how we see work, I mean political parties sell the idea that 'hard work is good for the soul' and a UBI remains controversial.
But it's clear that demonization of unemployed people at a time when technology is taking over is not helpful as it's a real issue that needs to be taken into account I think.
LETS KILL THE ELECTRIC FAN,THE WASHING MACHINE,THE OVEN AND MICROWAVE
I’m sacred. I’m going to be in the work force in a couple years, and I’m worried that I’ll not be able to get a job.
I love how Umbrella Corp is the company that outsourced their management
6:21 Umbrella corp?
10:30 Hahahaha... Oh, you were being serious?
- Politicians, Oligarchs, Corporations, and the rest of the 1%.
yang2020
We use machine learning to take over tons of legal and technical Jobs at my company. I am sorry!
I can automate half my job right now... I don't have enough time to code though.
Nibba wot we can just stop automatization then
Umbrella corporation 6:18
I work in the CNC industry and automation frightens me because this line of work is very vulnerable, our shop has already installed two robot arms.
Hopefully when nobody has a Job anymore and everything is made by machine, humanity will lern that Money is an self created scourge that hurt ourself.
It was a handy tool to start up our civilisations, as a universal trading token. Just that when machines take over and there are no more jobs, things will have to be given by ppl for free and money will become sort of obsolete.
funfact: netflix's call centers are 3rd party contracts , they don't claim them as employees but working for them you certainly are one
legally though you're not, in a sense, because they contract another company to employ you... so when you hear about netflix employees getting a benefit like paternity leave, know that it does not extend to the folks at the other end of the phone number your aunt and uncle call when they can't figure out how to log in
Razer liked this vid :)
cool
*stonks*
The two last professions will be physicists and AI programmers.
The last physicists will find a way to produce a hardware powerful enough to beat a human brain.
And the programmer will make the software for it.
On one day in the near future, the last work a human will maybe ever do is clicking on the “Build Executable and Run Program“ Button in an IDE... and this program will take the job of the one who has written it from this moment on. 😊
I believe, that if we continue down that road, money will eventually become obsolete. Because what's the point of money, if barely anyone will have a way to earn it?
@Aceox money is just a measurement of value. Currency the way it works today is an evolution of the object based trade in the past because it is more flexible.
@Gibbles bits That's what I meant. After we are past the period where humans invest and create these machines. In a distant future where those machines can create other machines and maintain them. Before that, yeah, money will most definitely stay with us for a long time. Maybe in-between the time where everything is automated and money becomes obsolete, and our current time we might see a change, where the currency we use to get things will change from money to an item-based system like it was many many years ago, where you would trade objects with objects, or maybe even work-hours. Actually, now that I think about it, I think money can be replaced by any other form of currency already right now. Money is just an object backed by banks and in itself has no actual value aside from trading it for something else.
@Aceox maybe in the very distant future that could happen. But before that people will invest in creating the machines that automate and profit needs to push progress. For that reason people need money to spend on those products. How they receive that money is what I see changing findumentaly. Money and work do not need to be tied together.
@Gibbles bits Yeah but the idea I was talking about was the idea of a future where automation happened to the point where machines can even do jobs like making sure everything runs, making sure the machines work properly, upgrading system etc. In that case money would theoretically be a thing of the past, because if machine and not people create products, and do all the work on their own, humans wouldn't have anything to do as far as work is concerned, meaning if no one works, no one is making money. If machines plant food for example, make sure they all run properly by themselves and deliver the food, then there's nothing humans can do left. And I doubt machines would start demanding money for the work they put into products. That was the idea I was talking about. What might happen in a future where everything is handled by machines and programs, which is a future that might actually happen if we continue to use automation for pretty much everything we do.
I mean, there are things like google deep mind (I think it was called) with self-learning neural networks which (I'm not sure if it was deep mind or something else not created by google) already are able to create art, recreate art of a specific artist, and there is even already a sort-of working network which can sort of recreate your voice (though as of yet, it's mostly able to recreate your pronounciation and such but not really the tone of your voice).
Money will always have a place in society however how we get and use it will change. Think about money as a way to vote. You vote on the products you buy, services you use, businesses you support. I see a future where everyone shares a portion of the profit made from the production in a country. Then the money given to the people is spent on the products and services that they like. Just like now if a businesses is bad or people hate it then no one will spend money there and it will go away. People who create businesses that provide value to the masses will collect more wealth which is not a bad thing.
Why aren’t cow udders being considered for censorship?
Maintenance and repair is one of the most reliable job paths in the future
Yang 2020
So powerful....
>Solar Storm had entered the chat
....yet so weak at the same time.
we are screwed
Let’s see a robot roof a house
It's only a matter of time. It's far off I think, but just check out Boston dynamics' on a robot doing drywall work.
This took you guys 900 hours to make??? Geez and it only took me 11 minutes and 40 seconds to watch it, get it together guys.
This video leads me to believe that the logical first step is to entirely restrict all forms of immigration into 1st world countries
All the 3.7k who disliked are mad cause he spitting straight facts
*tRaDe sToNkS*
We can assume that humans were afraid of fire at first but that's what helped us to get where we are today.
???
God, there are so many naive people in this comment section, talking about going to mars (No), exploring the ocean: you don't need to see to know if there is something there or not. and BS like that Its also not machines taking over our jobs it is them preventing new jobs, we are growing too fast.
Bird Person haha
THEY TOOK OUR JOBS
Nice video