Termination or Transformation


One of the things the article talked about is jobs being replaced by machines, and the fear that everyone is going to lose their job because of robots. Here’s the thing, robots are not going to take over everyone’s job, they may even create more jobs. First, there are people who need to manage the robots to see they are doing things correctly, next there are people who need to repair the robots. There are also people who need to build, and program the robots themselves. People are afraid that a machine will take their job, but machines can actually help create more jobs as well, maybe even ones with less risks to it.

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