Where are things going in an automated economy? - What happens when they make a robot-fixing robot?

A politician's favorite shtick to getting elected is to create more jobs. How do you create more jobs? Easy, ban things that are automated. New Jersey banned pumping your own gas in order to create a gas station attendant job. I think that'll just keep happening. They won't be good jobs, in fact they'll be abysmal jobs. Maybe an automated burger flipper will be installed, but then some law maker will ban some banal shit like automatically cleaning the grease out of the fryer. Jobs will definitely decrease, and maybe some places, even America, might go all Max Headroom, but I don't think it'll be a universal problem. In fact I'd bet some brown-nosed faggots like the UN will explicitly ban most modes of automation, or just increase taxes of automated companies to high hell, or some other thing that'll piss off every industry in the world.
 
MarvinTheParanoidAndroid said:
You do know that whole "driver sleeping in the back and only checking in when things go wrong" scenario is supposed to be a temporary arrangement, right?
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Yes I'll re-state it, I agree with that, but only if they can satisfy the people paying them that their automated truck is safe and secure. If I want to pay you to transport goods for me I want to be sure they'll be safe, so if you introduce a new fleet of self-driving trucks my number one concern is "are these as safe and reliable as a human driver?" Maybe the transport company doesn't really care if it's not very secure but their business associates do. I don't see any equivalence between the Equifax scenario and a transport company, the business model is completely different, it's apples and oranges.
 
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