The Baby Boomer Problem and the Rise of Automation in the Workplace

[chimpburgers]

We've all heard about how many of the Baby Boomers are starting to either die off or go into retirement. For a long time, there were many Baby Boomers still in positions of employment and criticism over how because these Baby Boomers have been in the job market for so long and retiring later that it's negatively affecting everything else for the young.

http://finance.yahoo.com/blogs/the-exchange/baby-boomers-jobs-younger-workers-214210886.html

What does everyone think of where we're heading with this trend? What are the solutions? This also ties into another topic that I believe is strongly intertwined with something like this and that's how much machines have been used more and more often in places of employment and doing the same kinds of jobs that 20 years ago were done by hand. I learned in my hospitality course that in South Korea, they were already starting to have much more of these restaurants that are automated and where there aren't as many servers.

Are these two trends going to fuck us over in the long term? I'm personally very worried.

 

[autisticdragonkin]

I think that we will see the end of capitalism due to automation. Baby Boomers are going to contribute but not much aside from adversely affecting one generation.

I think that after the end of capitalism humanity will enter into an era or warfare as there will be less incentive to cooperate

 

[AnOminous]

Are these two trends going to fuck us over in the long term? I'm personally very worried.

Yes, because to pay for these boomer fucks, there are going to be fewer jobs, so the people with them, who are already having trouble paying their own student loans and other burdens fobbed off onto them, will have to be vastly taxed to pay for these fucks.

We ought to just get a whole lot of ice floes and shove them out into the ocean on them.

Unfortunately most of them have melted, also thanks to boomers.

 

[The Giver]

I'm skeptical of the idea that automation is going to lead to a huge crisis. 100 years ago, a lot of folks worked farm jobs that have been replaced by machines nowadays, but new industries and jobs cropped up.

Imho the biggest problem is the loss of good paying factory jobs to foreign countries, not automation. The people working in the manufacturing industry have been hit much harder by factories being moved to Mexico or China than by automation. My grandfather and father both were able to support decently large families working in manufacturing, but I never even considered that to be a viable option.