Talk of The Villages Florida - Rentals, Entertainment & More
Talk of The Villages Florida - Rentals, Entertainment & More
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So you think the service will get better at the Squares?
or the cost will get better?
The Baby Boomer Retirement Surge Will Spark a Forever Labor Shortage part time jobs for cash to eat out / golf outside the bubble, should be plentiful for the boomers moving into TV late boomer guy |
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Interesting article.
I do think that this labor shortage is going to spur automation. Why not program a robot to cook fries? Broil burgers? etc. More restaurants are going to be self service. They call your number and you go and get your dinner. Or Robby the robot will bring it to your table. Less demand for unskilled labor. |
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On occasions, wife drags me to Marion Market. For the life of me I do believe that most of these "entrepreneurs" could make more money working these low skilled jobs as opposed to selling their goods at this market and other similar markets. This would help the situation, but would not solve the problem. |
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Yee of little faith!
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The economic problem is the island economy problem. The technology capital owners have an office building as the only office building on the island. The technology capital owners are 1% of the population. The technology capital owners own the only robotic restaurant on the island, having put the other labor restaurants out of business. There are two other employers on the island: the government and the fishing industry. The fishing industry earns money by selling fish / food to the government employees. The government earns its money from the taxes on the restaurant income and the fishing income. . . The only people who can afford eating at the restaurant are the 2% of the labor who waits on the technology capital owners. There is no one left to afford eating at the restaurant because all the fishing income is taxed to pay for the governmental employees to buy the fish. . . except the two percent who go out once a week Its a welfare state spiral with residents who can't afford to spend money at the automated restaurant. |
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The article sounds like it is a boon for skilled workers.
The future looks bleak for people with degrees that have no value to business or are otherwise unskilled. Serving fries and wearing backpack blowers for them. |
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Those people need to go to the bathroom sometimes. So they need plumbers on the island. They also need electricity - so they need electric workers. They need communications, so they need someone to build and operate cell towers, and an ISP for wifi. They need someone to pave roads. They need someone to repair roads that were already paved. They need all the exact same things that most communities need everywhere. Since they can't all be automated, they'll need actual people on this island who make robots, do programming, run networks through buildings, swap out servers, pave roads, and yes - grow food. If it's not a food growing climate they'll need someone to build hothouses. That means they'll need accommodations for truckers - which means a hotel. Now look at all the people living on or visiting this island who need goods and services. What started out as an exercise to prove how horrible it would be if robotics "took over" an island turns into an entire community created because - someone had to make the robots. |
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The point is that if the world progresses to complete automation, there will be a monopoly of robots against which the humans will have to compete, and since the humans need a lot more services than bots, humans lose out to capital. If humans lose out to capital, there will be a very large percentage of socialistic governmental supported unemployed. . . with very few productive humans supporting just the corporate owners. . . and that's when revolutions happen. . and the world goes backwards. . |
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