Viewing a single comment thread. View all comments

DestinedDestiny t1_je7fcyn wrote

I think it's going to do to industries what self checkout did for grocery stores. Instead of having to hire 12 cashiers due to population growth, you hire 1 to oversee computers doing the rest, thereby putting 11 people from that population growth out of a job to save the cost of employing 11 people.

1

ImArchBoo OP t1_je7hdsn wrote

And yet unemployment rates have reached all-time lows in many countries where these systems are adopted

2

DestinedDestiny t1_jec4f3y wrote

Point? This is one sector of the job market and the point is to imagine what the unemployment rate would be at if the technology for self checkout didn't exist and each machine had to be manned. There'd be 11 more employed people per store using this technology (not that thats a ton, but it adds up).

1

lemonsqueeze84 t1_jeathnm wrote

No one at Walmart lost their jobs because of self checkout. They were moved to other areas, mainly online grocery shopping.

2

DestinedDestiny t1_jec3ubk wrote

I didn't say they lost their jobs; just that they didn't have to employee new people to man registers.

1

lemonsqueeze84 t1_jec4fgd wrote

I apologize. I misunderstood when you said people were out of a job.

1