Automation is 'most polarizing conversation' in industry, says port director

[@bobnankervis9722]

When a robot costs less than you then you know how much you are worth. Sad but true

[@ProJoe-xb5ie]

Humans think they're special but in reality other people they don't view us as anything

[@gruntgamer4204]

It's nothing new, buying a machine is a fixed cost. Without adding the amount needed to continuously supply power for it. Either way a robot is cheaper in the long run.

[@dreadfuldonkey]

About a $1.298 is about right

[@majesticface3631]

Yeah but that could be said about a lot if things. Why buy a lawyer when chat gpt is free? Sure, it’s not a 1-1 comparison, but how many jobs can be replaced because of ai now? It’s a valid reason. People need jobs but we also shouldn’t be stuck in the past

[@fixedit8689]

I work in a food manufacturing facility (not to be named). When I started 22 years ago there was almost 450 production workers and a lot of manual labor in almost all aspects. I was hired because of my automation and robotics background. By my second year we had one production line practically fully automated. From about 10-15 workers to now four. Today we are about 150 or less across three shifts five to six days a week. We are moving product at an amazing rate out the door. Nine production line fully automated by the team. There were many meetings, concepts, measuring, mock ups, test after test, pushing the equipment to its max speed and beyond. Fried servos, jammed conveyors, overheated motors, oil spills and lots of wasted products for testing was the norm. I remember one day I was threatened by a production worker for eliminating jobs. I said this was what I was hired for and the other were for the same reason. We’re just doing our job. Then I told him to get trained as an operator and you won’t lose your job. He took my advice and is now one of the top operators we have and we became close friends

[@gruntgamer4204]

@@fixedit8689 you're part of the problem. And you're too dumb or ignorant to see it.

[@leofortey7561]

Don't forget, after the kinks are ironed out, quality control is easier, less human stuff entering the food(hair...) and speed is greatly increased.

[@roberttaira6943]

At least you’re happy you got a job so you can be a part of the process to lay off 10-15 other workers. Also, why do we need immigration (9+ million in the last 3 years) if automation is laying off workers?

[@fixedit8689]

@@roberttaira6943 getting people laid off was not my intent and I wish they don’t lay people off. I’m there for a specific job function and to earn a living. The good thing is there are plenty of food manufactures within a 15 mile radius and all found jobs shortly

[@leofortey7561]

@@roberttaira6943 exactly...

[@preciousisrael7]

Automation is the future.

[@naturalisted1714]

Hopefully for the better.

[@samuelg3586]

Maximum profits

[@whitehaze259]

After hearing a union worker say, when asked on what do you want in your new contract, the worker said, Whatever the union boss wants, Robots are there already.

[@naturalisted1714]

Automation is the epitome of "work smarter not harder".

[@woobykal68]

Automation has always happened. 100 years ago men used pick and shovels to dig holes, it was back breaking work. Do these people want to go back to that?

[@FrankGallagherr]

Who thinks Harris is 1000X worse than Biden ?.

[@JohnHallett5846isaPrick]

@@FrankGallagherr 👈🇨🇳🤖

[@Des-de-Nova]

Automation in the medical labs increase speed, accuracy, and productivity. What used to take hours or days to reach a result now takes minutes. In an emergency or surgical setting time saved equals lives saved. How many of these knucklehead Longshoremen took advantage of automation in the medical lab when they or their family members' life depended upon it?

[@leofortey7561]

But... that was different. 😛

[@user-nn6gy4rd3z]

Automation increases productivity, thereby reducing prices for consumers. Technology generates wealth by making things cheaper. It is time for the government to stop giving labor unions special protections because they are a drag on the economy.

[@CrabFiles]

Manual labor can't scale to the demand anyway... It is like saying we are going to pick cotton by hand to keep people employed lol...

[@i.03983]

If the end consumer is not paid due to job loss how will money circulate in the economy who will buy all the goods ding dong

[@CrabFiles]

@@i.03983 Everything isn't fixed, people die, people are born, people get new jobs...

[@solomongrundy1467]

​@CrabFiles Exactly. The birth rates are falling, so there won't be many people who won't have jobs in the long run. Increased automation is perfect for a declining population.

[@Unineil]

Many saw mills in the south are fully automated with only maintinence to manage the robots. They’re trying to squeeze us all, I’m in favor of a full automated system or competition. 72% raise in 6 years…

[@AnimeDoc-media]

Automation is good actually, I support more jobs being replaced by robots.

[@PatriciaNomar-y8b]

I noticed a lot of stores is replacing people with machines.cant find hardly any employees at Kroger's anymore.

[@bobroberts2371]

In 2023 ILA president Harold Daggett made $ 901,000 a year. This is $ 728,000 from the ILA and $ 173,000 for being ILA president . Will he be giving 90% of his salary to the poor workers?

[@FlowKio]

He’s also a huge criminal that works with the Genovese crime family and vehicle theft groups

[@dheemanthuppalapati]

Why can’t Jean just answer the question? Is the traffic better because of automation, or not? All we got was talk about dashboards and volume increases-totally dodged the point!

[@rogertarbox8543]

If these guys were the horse and buggy union there would be no cars

[@neonsheep3358]

Round and around the cycle of inflation goes. Cost of goods is too high, so higher wages are demanded. In order to pay those higher wages, the cost of goods goes up. Unless of course you replace your people with robots.

[@srp7038]

The wage-price cycle.

[@lr9010]

What happens down the road when this version of AI becomes obsolete and you can’t afford the next AI version of something to do the job. Will you have no trained workforce and no AI? We aren’t very good with the maintenance or upkeep of things in the US.

[@norduferhandel4512]

$20 minimum wage also drives companies to automate.

[@creative_mindsrus1541]

Now the rest of the country needs to do this.

[@leofortey7561]

Do what? Strike, or automate? Be a tad more clear on what you are trying to say, a lot was said in the video.

[@tagalong108]

Well give them what they ask for, with the stipulation that the ports must be 85% efficient with in a year, if not then automatoin will be brought in to make it efficient. Then its all up to the workers...

[@C-Mack]

...or fire them all and buy the automated equipment to replace them.

[@williammurray1341]

The more robots, the fewer people.

[@niilespunkari8832]

.. and so fewer problems.

[@michaelayeni177]

Why are you guys mad? In a true capitalist country, automation is a good thing. Socialism is keeping humans jobs at the expense of profits.

[@kaykartz9167]

You have it backwards.

[@kaykartz9167]

You have it backwards.

[@gruntgamer4204]

You sound like a traitor.

[@dariuscalix6853]

Yes, automation will create new jobs. These reaction by conservatives show you that they're, in fact, a true socialist. The most evil socialists, in my opinion, are conservatives

[@Wolfcamp555]

You're right. socialism is an expense to profits but you can't have jobs or socialism without profit and capitalism.

[@jeffbortz8782]

Automated needs to be done at the ports so the unions can't screw the American people anymore

[@codebloke2200]

Automation is not as polarizing if it is not owned exclusively by corporations. Allow the workers to buy equity in the automation systems and then they get to work fewer hours while receiving dividend checks from the automation productivity. Capitalism is still the best socio-economic model to have existed. However if we don't get creative and allow capitalism to bend; it will break.

[@USA_Love_BIackedRaw_9234]

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[@xijinbling2373]

Andrew Yang warned us years back.

[@C-Mack]

🤣😂🤣

[@jamescampbell390]

Offer the job contract with training of course and safety to those who lost everything in the storms and see if they want to rebuild their community and make way more money I mean oil rig workers work thousands of miles away from home

[@notthecia4504]

Robots don't go on strike

[@RonnyAndersson-q9b]

With AI comes automation. Same discussion was had when cars came about. "What about the horses!". "I quit!". "Oh how I suffer these technocrats!". When the internet came about some thought it would never stick. "If you want to know a phone number you look in the phone book". "Waste time behind a monitor? Never!". Same with AI. "I'm replaced! What am I to do!". Dude you've complained your whole life about the burdens of 9 to 5. How about you watch your kids grow up? Do something other than the laundry with the wife. Yes, universal income. Cope.

[@freddiecarr7602]

they have done it on one part of Long Beach! So how about putting 5,000 migrants to work at a lower rate

[@gruntgamer4204]

Automation is a danger to the public and this nation as a whole.

[@srp7038]

Unions are a bigger danger.

[@srp7038]

@@kevinwilt3918 Robots have moved cars and trucks around their factories for decades. OSHA hasn't shut it down yet.

[@gruntgamer4204]

​@@srp7038automation is the bigger danger. A fully automated manufacturing industry means they no longer have a need for the people or their votes. Opening the way for them to force a change towards a tyrannical autocracy.

[@HH-le1vi]

​@@gruntgamer4204if you have no tax revenue, you have no government.

[@gruntgamer4204]

@@HH-le1vi that's how it worked BEFORE automation was a possibility.

[@tomte47]

Why not get rid of the cranes to while you are at it, or the containers, manual unload of all goods ! To fight Automation in 2024 you have to be really clueless, it is the same fight the workers had with the first mechanical textile machines a few hundred years ago and the arguments have not changed but unlike those workers of the past people today have the benefit of hindsight. Automation is what makes the average person of today have a life only afforded to kings in the past.

[@ablejohnson]

The tail wagging the dog 🐕

[@jeffbortz8782]

I think that mob boss union president will be like hofa where did he go holding up a bridge😂

[@fnusecurity5112]

I bet you that Elon Musk could not Automation the Ports with his Knowledge. I dare him to try. LOL. If I was a Union Boss I be afraid that some inventor with a bright ideal how to do this is now looking out how to cash in and save the people the heartache of this ever happening again. Cause Robots or AI don't go on strike, Don't need time off except for those Maint Checks or updates to keep them running and make it smoother. I would be scared that new Tech people will be taking your jobs to work on these and less dock workers who might or might not be able to switch over to those jobs. Some are pretty smart to handle those Cranes.

[@Timstory6505]

The 500 above are just too stupid😂

[@Timstory6505]

Oh forgot the e

[@snapfinger1]

It’s grim enough to make a robot cry. Screw AI.

[@dhughes0402]

If everyone is out of work because of automation. Who’s the consumers? Who’s driving the economy? How does a system like this sustain the population

[@kevinwilt3918]

It doesn't. We're the carbon they want to get rid of. Yuval Harari of the WEF also.posed the same question and his own answer is keep people fat and playing video games.

[@kaykartz9167]

It doesn't. The entire Democrat platform is to keep us dependent on the government. What better way to control us if we are dependants of the government?!

[@kaykartz9167]

It doesn't. The entire Democrat platform is to keep us dependent on the government. What better way to control people if they are dependants of the government?!

[@jeffreywillis4258]

You think automation just appears out of the sky?

[@Shadow_Banned_Conservative]

Automation will never be allowed by unions in America, it will be written in every contract in perpetuity to forbid automation. And since automation takes time, they hold the American public hostage forever to block it.

[@leifkemp]

Good luck with that...Profit is too large of a carrot. Longshoreman are ALREADY extinct. They just don't know it, yet.

[@gruntgamer4204]

Automation in any manufacturing capacity is a danger to the American people. And this nation. Machines can be hacked remotely by anyone with sufficient skill and knowledge, workers can't be. There's also the danger of the government betraying the people and trying to introduce a shift towards a tyrannical autocracy. Once they no longer have to rely on the people to manufacture the parts they need.

[@srp7038]

The unions will lose that fight. No worker movement has ever been able to hold back progress. Capital goes to where it's needed.

[@ginaslifetoo]

It happened in California

[@preciousisrael7]

Not going to work

[@Timstory6505]

Job is that biblical😂

[@USA_Love_BIackedRaw_9234]

The perfume created by Leobardo Garcia Corrales from Sinaloa is a true symbol of love, hard work and respect offering a sensory journey of elegance and grace

[@roberttaira6943]

Stu, where is the workers’ interview? Of course he is happy for automation because it makes him more money. They are going to automate trucking too…where are the increase in jobs if robots are driving trucks so he is a lying sack of ….

[@Timstory6505]

Maybe they can automatically wip there backßide being nice to the sinsativity of their comunity

[@safsafwanj6436]

How about replacing you with AI speaking robot. This will save fox 2 million $ a year salary

[@mikem3775]

What happens when America goes total automated How are people supposed to make money to pay for their families

[@ragnarokjoe]

then retrain them for another skills..most port works in the USA are fully automated in china,singapore,japan,korea,hongkong,taiwan

[@HH-le1vi]

You can only fully automate about 40% of jobs.

[@niilespunkari8832]

public sector: nurses, police, firemen, prison guards.

[@tonilytle6968]

Im sorry but you lie threw your teeth!

[@ThatPeekaBooGuy]

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[@pocalypto]

There's no future for these people

[@karlcameron8825]

How many illegal migrants are in the shipping containers.