> when the value is replacing the cost of low skill workers
My electrician is highly skilled. He still has to drive himself to the job site and unpack his tools there, which is low-skill labor.
My electrician is highly skilled. He still has to drive himself to the job site and unpack his tools there, which is low-skill labor.
An electrician is in most cases already not doing that well (otherwise those apprenticeships would be full).
Replacing them will be terrific for people employing electricians like you. Not for electricians trying to accumulate their own capital through labour.
We aren’t a decade out from electrician robots.
> electrician is in most cases already not doing that well (otherwise those apprenticeships would be full)
My electrician takes his family on ski vacations in Japan. In many communities, young people simply don’t want to go into the trades.
> Not for electricians trying to accumulate their own capital through labour
Agree. But at the point we have electrician robots we have also eliminated a lot of other tedious (and dangerous) labour. A house full of servants becomes lower middle-class reality.
Google says there are a million electricians earning an average of 60k in the US (I guess mostly not going on ski trips to Japan on that salary). That’s 60bn a year on the table for anyone who can automate that work. How long would you bet it will be before it’s automated? I’d say not ten years but I’d be surprised if it were not done in fifty.
This is great for anyone who has sufficient capital to afford housing, food, and energy. Long term decreases in real salaries means people are more dependent on state / company / family gifts. People without access to this have bad lives. Question is how generous the gifts will be.