“We have to face why Donald Trump won the election of 2016. He won by the numbers because we'd automated away four million manufacturing jobs in Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Missouri, Iowa, all the swing states he needed to win and did win, and I have many friends who work in technology.…”— Andrew Yang, 2020poolreports.substack.com
“There’s a big distinction between humans as humans and humans as workers. The former are indispensable. The latter may not be.”— Andrew Yang, amazon.com
“The future without jobs will come to resemble either the cultivated benevolence of Star Trek or the desperate scramble for resources of Mad Max.”— Andrew Yang, amazon.com
“I was just thinking what an interesting concept it is to eliminate the writer from the artistic process. If we could just get rid of these actors and directors, maybe we've got something here.”— Michael Tolkin, Griffin Mill, Tim Robbins, imdb.com
“I think if you look at coal miners on the Western Slope, or you look at truck drivers, or you look at bank tellers, all of these industries that stand to be automated or changed, or eliminated even potentially. We know we're going to have many, many Coloradans who are going to be in transition.”— Mike Johnston, cpr.org
“Never send a human to do a machine's job.”— Lilly Wachowski, Lana Wachowski, Agent Smith, Hugo Weaving, imdb.com
“Given the technological revolution, this kind of talk on the part of Negro institutions, merely leads to that atmosphere where Negroes and whites will be fighting in the streets over the few jobs which do exist, or over jobs which do not exist.”— Bayard Rustin, americanradioworks.publicradio.org
“The best-paying jobs — managers, professionals, and the like — are doing fine. The lowest-paying jobs, like personal care and food, are also doing fine. It’s the middle-paying jobs that are in trouble.”— Scott Alexander, slatestarcodex.com
“For food service industry and retail, I'm for the minimum wage being increased to at least $12. Not for manufacturing. Software and robotics are going to revolutionize manufacturing in the next 10 years. In the meantime, we have to compete with overseas manufacturing.”— Mark Cuban, cnn.com
“We have to face the fact that countries are going to lose jobs to robotics. The only question that needs to be answered is which country will create and own the best robotic technology and have the infrastructure necessary to enable it.”— Mark Cuban, washingtonexaminer.com
“Whatever you are studying right now, if you are not getting up to speed on deep learning, neural networks, etc., you lose. We are going through the process where software will automate software, automation will automate automation.”— Mark Cuban, cnbc.com
“You think these classes are gonna help me land a job in quality control at the sex robot factory?”— Liz Tigelaar, Laura, Tara Lynne Barr, imdb.com
“Until we figure out how to fairly distribute the fruits of robot labor, it will be an era of mass joblessness and mass poverty.”— Kevin Drum, motherjones.com
“More and more, it seems, the technology billed as freeing humanity is now being used to replace it outright. The car is, quite literally, becoming the driver.”— Matt Labash, weeklystandard.com
“A new analysis of 17 years of data shows that not only are robots taking jobs away from low-skilled workers, but the move to automation is also lowering wages for existing jobs.”— Patrick Caughill, futurism.com
“iPhone maker Foxconn has replaced more than half its workforce with robots since the iPhone 6 was launched.”— Tom Whitwell, Ben Lovejoy, medium.com
“A key mechanism to achieve this is to automate the management as much as possible, removing error prone, manual operations.”— Werner Vogels, allthingsdistributed.com