Even window cleaning jobs are not safe

As an extension of the previous post about manual work being replaced by robots, here is another (depressing) example of it.

Window cleaning is now done by robots and will be done in the future again the same problems occur.




To those who champion automation, bigger profits, or people having more time to pursue meaningful tasks and creative tasks. I say nay, this may make me a luddite


But this dream was sold to our parents in different guises, in the 1960s and 1970s massive amounts of Indian labour was imported so that the local man could pursue more meaningful work. This never happened productivity did increase this along with quality of life, but the locals were pushed out of jobs.

In northern towns today there are nasty racial tensions regarding this.


In the past also it was postulated that the aspects of automation would mean that few people would have to work. This work would be in food and energy production as well as maintenance the rest of the population could sit back and live in a star trek world where people could spend their time in self-improvement. This future never happened. Instead the extra productivity was used to both push down wages and the owners of such factories scooped the profits up.

This is why I see rather dark times ahead for our societies; it actually reflects a few disturbing sci fi novels I’ve read in my time. Where millions of people pick through the rubbish of abandoned cities looking for something to eat or to sell.