mechanization

The fact is that mechanization is competing against humans.

Increase minimum wage, decrease low skilled jobs, and increase mechanization.

This absurd mechanization of a living creature is just disgusting.

Yes, mechanization would eliminate jobs - such is the nature of creative destruction.

Most homes and buildings go up amazingly fast due to a lot of prefab and modular designs as well as a lot of process mechanization.

And so long as the human wage can be driven down in real terms, the falling minimum cost of mechanization won't meet it. But there is inelasticity in human wages, created by things such as food and having a roof over your head.

They lost their indentured servitude when they became obsoleted by the mechanization of farming.

By allowing the mechanization of labor, we've implicitly chosen the later.

Had I forsaken mechanization, the increased demand for labor that my farm would have created could have improved the working conditions, or at least pay, for those bottom-tier farm hands.

For the past three hundred years, virtually every mechanization which improved the productivity of labor was fought by the establishment.

Agriculture is big business, farmers are smart people, and there is a history of lots of mechanization and interesting technology being applied.

It also seems that automation has little in common with mechanization, because automation replaces mental labor.

Fundamentally, what computers provide is the mechanization of knowledge.

So instead of investing in farm mechanization, or paying marginally more for produce, we should have a permanent underclass of foreign-born manual laborers?

Productivity has steadily risen thanks to mechanization, and real wages did at one point tend to track more or less equally with that rise, even if the wages did not entail the entirety of the value produced.

Nor would they imagine that the technological innovations between us and that war have been marginally more important than those in the century proceeding WW I. The Green Revolution is fine, but it seems hard to believe its productivity improvements outstrip those from the mechanization of agriculture, or the use of railroads to move grain.

On the other hand, the mechanization of agriculture had devastating social consequences when introduced to the UK in the 1700s, leading to mass unemployment, crimewaves and the introduction of the death penalty for stealing food.

We're pushing into the golden age of mechanization, automation and robotics and instead of being able to celebrate we have to wonder what everyone is going to do with themselves and invent assistant-inspector-inspector jobs.