Armies of Expensive Lawyers, Replaced by Cheaper Software

Quote from hippie:

David H. Autor, an economics professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, says the United States economy is being “hollowed out.” New jobs, he says, are coming at the bottom of the economic pyramid, jobs in the middle are being lost to automation and outsourcing, and now job growth at the top is slowing because of automation.
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I don't know when it will happen, but I think eventually even positions such as teachers can be replaced by computers. Maybe not 100%, but you could have a "teacher" walking around a room with 300-500 students who are all in front of a PC terminal learning with online lessons, virtual teachers, etc. It really isn't that far fetched and could infact be done today if necessary. Also, even if the U.S. doesn't plan for this kind of future, other countries will, so we can't just laugh at it while other countries use technology to reduce their govt. costs and actually teach possibly more effectively.

Think about other things - for example, garbagemen used to actually lift the garbage up into their trucks, etc. Now (in my area and many others), they just drive the truck close and the machine picks it up with it's lift and puts the can back down. Now, consider that google is trying to make cars that drive themselves - just one step away then from garbage trucks going around with no-one in them, taking the trash away, etc. No employees needed at all. Not saying it is a week away or anything, but it is coming.

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Buckminster Fuller once said something to the effect, "the human race could live like kings if we only chose to". When you think of all the inefficiency in the economy it is amazing. So many people putting their effort into stealing from one another rather than producing. If you ever worked actually producing a physical product (which very few Americans have) you know that even in industry, most of your time is wasted on inefficiency.
Not saying there is an easy solution - but to argue it "must" be this way is incorrect IMO. If you have a society that enforces rights and prevents economic theft, you usually have a richer society with more leisure time.
 
Quote from lorax2013:

Buckminster Fuller once said something to the effect, "the human race could live like kings if we only chose to". When you think of all the inefficiency in the economy it is amazing. So many people putting their effort into stealing from one another rather than producing. If you ever worked actually producing a physical product (which very few Americans have) you know that even in industry, most of your time is wasted on inefficiency.
Not saying there is an easy solution - but to argue it "must" be this way is incorrect IMO. If you have a society that enforces rights and prevents economic theft, you usually have a richer society with more leisure time.
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The only reason the economy exists is due to inefficiencies. If you want to climb the class-ladder, make something more efficient.
 
Quote from 1prometheus:

If our country was run by people who care about America as a nation (rather than global rent seeking) we could do it again.

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No, we can't.... not unless American workers become willing to toil for $1/hr.
 
As to your title, it's not a bad thing for lawyers to be replaced, IMO. 70% of them are not trustworthy and 50% of them would sell out their own mother to make a buck.

They are the 2nd biggest drain on business productivity in the US, behind government regulations.
 
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