10 Jobs That Are Safe Because Robots Cost Too Much
The post 10 Jobs That Are Safe Because Robots Cost Too Much appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com. What if robots cost more than people? A new study suggests that the low-end jobs we assume will be automated might be too expensive. VCG via Getty Images Maybe robots will cost more than people. And just maybe, human jobs will be safe for longer than we think. According to a new report by a construction software company, replacing a single nursing assistant with a humanoid robot runs about $375,100 a year, nearly nine times the $42,200 these workers actually earn. And robots that could replace construction laborers, who make just under $50,000 per year, would cost almost $300,000. “For years, the assumption was that low-paid, low-skill jobs would be the first to go,” a spokesperson from Planera, the software company that did the report, told me via email. “But the data shows the opposite.” For a decade, the automation story has had a pretty clear villain and a clear victim. The villain was