re: Leaked video shows new 'nightmare-inducing' wheeled robot from Boston Dynamics

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Gonna happen anyway but not without controversy and I realize my fears are still quite a few years in the future.

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The rush to robotics is being fueled by the unreliability and great costs associated with human workers. Unions and liberal laws mandating unrealistic employer/worker relationships are causing businesses to frantically search for alternatives. The only realistic alternative is the use of robots.

Take McDonald's for instance. With unskilled workers demanding $15.00/hour and many local and state governments supporting them, the company is looking at automating its operations so that the human worker cost is eliminated.

Every major company that has enough resources to explore robotics is doing so, especially at the production level. Is this shockwave of human worker replacement quite a few years in the future? No. It's well under way and the effect on the masses will only become more extreme in the next 5 years.

The new Trump administration seems oblivious to this major threat to the working class. So was the previous Obama leadership. Technology is changing the world faster than politics can keep up. This could have grave consequences in the 2020s.