The Dockworkers Strike Against Automation is Futile

See: Thousands of longshoremen strike in South Florida demanding higher pay, job protections – CBS Miami (cbsnews.com)

Every person who wants to work should have opportunity to do so. America was built on this premise.

But specifically striking ‘against automation’ is futile. No group, not even vital port workers, can stop robotics from replacing certain jobs.

Take for example the cleaning services industry. It’s just a matter of time before much of that work is automated. It still will require humans, but more in the form of robot managers and maintenance technicians.

The “Digitization Gap” is huge. Organizations who don’t currently have automation and A.I. as their number one focus – and frankly already have progress implementing – are going to struggle.

Many SaaS companies will soon be extinct because it’s far more efficient to have A.I. agents and robots working with our data than to pay millions of dollars to software providers.

The most ironic but hardest hit segment of the workforce will actually be software developers. There is already really no reason to sit and code software. There’s need to architect software. We need robot wranglers in every industry.

This is true for our factories and ports. By next year at this time humanoid robots will be everywhere and they will start to truly replace our humans in the workforce.

Put down the picket signs and enroll in upskilling, starting today.