And if you're a biz owner, and you're making hiring decisions, which of those headlines is more compelling? Let's not be naive, they're the same.
A robot that builds shoddy shoes that people don't particularly want any more getting cheaper isn't compelling.
A robot that makes Budweiser 5% more efficiently isn't compelling if what people really want is craft beer.
The best example is autonomous long haul trucking. No drivers means no need to truck stop food. No need for food means no dinner staff. Etc.
Replace a single job and multiple downstream jobs will be affected. That's true everywhere.
It's coming. Can we adjust and readjust quick enough? At what point does unemployment become permanent state? Then what?
The other option is to keep the retirement age down. I'd like to know why so many people who believe in this automation revolution are instead advocating for the exact opposite on the grounds that we actually really have the opposite problem...
You can't take both sides of this fence. Either the automation revolution is real and retirement ages can be lowered or it isn't and articles like this are spouting horseshit.
We don't need a new system. We just need to slowly expand the one we have a little further each year. Lowering the retirement age is a great place to start.
CloudBrewing (like Travis Kalanick’s CloudKitchens but for beer)
In theory there's nothing to prevent the automation of any process. The question is cost.
For craft beer there's 10,000 different kinds for every 10 million liters drunk, all with a completely different brewing process and consumer tastes keep changing in this market because consumers seek novelty.
Whereas for Budweiser there's just one, unchanging process.
So yes, it is much harder to automate than Budweiser brewing and is much more labor intensive.
It's far from the only market where this happens, too.