Today's takeaways
- labor 노동 vs. laborer 노동자
1. a person engaged in work that requires bodily strength rather than skill or training:
a laborer in the field.
2. any worker.
- for their living
= to make a living/for their livelihood
- displaced : physical change of location
-> replaced
Q. What are the advantages of robots replacing human labor?
As it’s mentioned in the Ringle article, robots could do some dangerous or tedious jobs for human laborers. In Korea, every year some shipbuilding workers die from industrial accidents. It’s happening repeatedly. I hope robots could do this kind of dangerous work so that no more workers become endangered/ are put in danger.
Aside from that, human laborers can put their energy into a higher value business/ a business that adds higher value. In other words, people can invest their time and energy in more valuable areas rather than simple labor.
When it comes to work, there are various types, some work doesn't require any special knowledge. If it requires great creativity or showing empathy, that kind of work cannot be replaced by robots.
It's already happening, like a call center, maybe it's different from robots, companies try to introduce some AI programs, but I'm not satisfied with encountering those digital programs. That doesn't really meet my needs, in the end it can't meet my needs. It's much better, they understand me better. I think companies try to cut their costs by reducing labor, but it doesn't really work.
Q. What social problems do you think will arise when robots displace humans?
I believe some people may feel a sense of loss when they lose their jobs due to robots. Take a restroom cleaning job, for example. Even though it's said that nobody wants to be a sanitation worker, they do their best cleaning toilets and feel proud of themselves while contributing to a pleasant environment. If those people lose their jobs unexpectedly, it could affect their mental health.
It could be affected, it's a side effect, the reality is that they will lose their future income. The fact is that they need to find other kinds of jobs to make a living/for their livelihood, but if they are not prepared well, it might affect them.
Q. Does your government put priority on this issue?
I don't think it's a priority for the government, but everyone understands it will happen in the future. I don't know how seriously people accept it.
Q. What are the first jobs to be replaced by robots? Why do you think these are the jobs to go first?
Food delivery jobs and waiters in restaurants would be the first jobs to be replaced by robots because the jobs are simple and do not require advanced knowledge. Recently, there has been a trend of restaurants preferring to use Kiosk ordering systems that are not dependent on traditional human labor. For restaurants, it’s always important to cut down personnel expenses; so self-employed restaurant owners may try to use more robots instead of humans.
I watched some tv program, in which Korean people they traveled in/to the US, and they saw some robots walking on the street, they were delivering food. The people in the program, they found it very interesting, it took a lot of time. The robot started to come, and it took more time than they expected. That kind of job will be replaced with robots. I watched a movie called Her, in the movie, the main character talks to a robot, and it seems like the robot shows some emotion and has some empathy with him. He feels like the robot is his friend. I'm not sure real human friends can be replaced by robots. Even though some robots could imitate emotions, they can't replace them.
If I think about the robots, I think about how in the future robots will replace human workers, I feel confused. Let's say that there are robots that could be our friends and we can have a conversation with them. Human beings are not very logical, sometimes we encounter an unusual situation even with friends. If we get accustomed to dealing with robot friends, we would have some gap in dealing with human friends. Because there will be a gap between robots and humans. It looks still very awkward. I know that Tesla invests huge money in developing robots, and said the robots will be one of the main social developments/changes in the work force in the future.
Q. What are conditions for the sustainable coexistence of robots and humans?
Government and companies should prepare relevant policies to support people who may lose their jobs to robots. Some people may know their jobs will be replaced by robots someday, but they have no idea what to do in order to deal with job market changes in the future. The government should predict what kinds of changes robots would bring and prepare work policies corresponding to those changes.
I think schoolteachers can also be replaced by robots. Maybe it depends on what kind of class, if a teacher needs to deliver the same kinds of content repeatedly, that can be replaced by robots. Maybe a one to one class could be different, maybe a group class could be run/led by robots.
I think the government could provide like job training to improve other job skills, maybe it's a different topic, I heard when people retire, if they can't keep up the same kind of work, they need to start totally different work. For those people it takes some time and energy. There should be some policies or support to help them. In a similar way, people cannot prepare by themselves, the government could say what kind of changes could happen. Okay, if this happens, what kind of job would you like to transfer to? The new era will happen someday, but we need to take some time and action to prepare people mentally and financially.
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