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.

Where have all the jobs gone?

A robot has replaced the workers or several robots, so when Humans are not cheap enough employ a robot. It is understandable as robots work quickly never get tired or complain. @ £5.80 an hour a decision has been made that humans are too expensive and thus a robot has been invested in.

Although there is ancillary work say the maintenance and programming of such robots the amount of human labour reduced in the process is stunning. The above factory example has almost zero human input once the button is pressed to go.

But herein lies the problem and that of total capitalism, in that if everybody's jobs are replaced by machines then who will be left with jobs to buy the goods?. Nobody thats who...

Henry Ford's revolution was based not on assembly lines for efficiency although this was markedly important. Instead his revolution was based on paying high wages, high wages motivate the staff. Also high wages mean that the staff have money to buy the products and services that Ford produced therefore forming a virtuous circle.

You work for money, you have money you buy.

Today a Robot does your job, you are on your £61 welfare cheque a week who is going to buy the products of the company producing things?....

Looks like packers jobs are going to vanish too

In past times there were always jobs which you could fall back on, meat packing, cleaning, resturant jobs but even these jobs are being taken over. So there are no jobs in the middle, no jobs at the bottom, what the hell is the UK population going to do?.