No More Cashier Jobs?

Robots took our jerrrbs

 

Considering his parents are immigrants, I highly doubt that

 

Just pointing out the cold realities of capitalism in some industries.

 

Although I'd say that the invention of machines that pick cotton has relieved those folks on the very bottom of the income scale from doing that shit work.

 

That big guy looks like Zero Mostel?

 

I delivered these welding robots to GM plants and to MRI machine plants. At first I didn't understand that after a couple of years when they had enough machines to kick start the assembly line, they would lay off half their human workers. During my 36 plus years in the trucking business, I saw nearly everything that was made in America get sent to other countries. Gates Rubber fan belts were sent to be made in Mexico, Dickies Jeans, Jackets, and bib over-alls were sent to Mexico, Dodge Pickup trucks and Kenworth heavy trucks were sent there too. At the end of my career I was hauling dog food that was made in China and sent to the port of Wilmington-Long Beach. Most leather good which had been made in America are now produced in South Korea. Ford Ranger pickup trucks were sent to South Africa for assembly. The Ford Pinto went to Mexico. Trump and Pence made a big deal about an air conditioner plant in Indiana and they gave it a government grant to stay in America; but, when the check was in hand they went to Mexico anyway.

 

I must be the only one here old enough to remember Zero Mostel? He was in Sirocco with Humphry Bogart.

 

Oh, I remember.

 

Just me, but I think people might be more likely to recall Zero Mostel from A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, or The Producers.

 

No matey, 'fraid to say you're wrong, I too remember Zero Mostel.

 

I remember him from Sirocco with Bogart and Fiddler on the Roof.

 

Here's one for you matey - Does the name Vic Oliver mean anything ???

 

I wait in line at the cashier. Won't use the automatic checkout.
When efficiency is used to replace jobs then it's no longer a good thing.

 

Hum, walk to cashier at gas pump
or put debit card in gas pump..

decisions decisions ..

 

Reminds me of Ashley on Gone With The Wind. (The one Scarlet wanted)

 

both evil. you damn well drive to the nearest full service station!

we're all job killing SOBs anyway; if any of us had a conscience we would be mailing letters to each other instead of posting on the forums.

 

Where do those even exist anymore?

Regardless, the technology to fully replace cashiers has existed since the late 20th century. The first pilot programs were dreadful failures because people were completely creeped out by having to use an electronic ID device. So the industry waited and made incremental changes including cards for "discounts" that people were all too happy to accept. Even though they were electronic ID cards.

A raft, hell a barge of these kinds of jobs are already obsolete but cannot be jettisoned because of the effect massive unemployment would have on the overall economy. So we are in a program of slow free fall and the people at the lowest rungs of the employment ladder are the most fucked. That is by design. Next in line is an even bigger group, those who got conned into getting a secondary education that was already obsolete (like IT, engineering and machine work/manufacturing).

There's an automated utopia in the human future. But only for certain humans. For the rest of us there will be stagnation, maybe a return to famines and basement quality healthcare.

 

I was looking up obsolete jobs and there used to be something called a knocker-upper. Replaced by automation.