{"id":4901,"date":"2012-11-23T16:57:35","date_gmt":"2012-11-23T22:57:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=4901"},"modified":"2012-11-23T16:57:35","modified_gmt":"2012-11-23T22:57:35","slug":"how-a-robot-will-steal-your-job","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=4901","title":{"rendered":"How a Robot Will Steal Your Job"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A href=\"http:\/\/m.gizmodo.com\/5960261\/how-a-robot-will-steal-your-job\">Cord Jefferson<\/a>: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>On a visit to Standard Motor Products&#8217; fuel-injector assembly line in South Carolina, Atlantic writer Adam Davidson asked why a worker there, Maddie, was welding caps onto the injectors herself. Why not use a machine? That&#8217;s how a lot of the factory&#8217;s other tasks were performed. Maddie&#8217;s supervisor, Tony, had a bracing, direct answer: &#8220;Maddie is cheaper than a machine.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Davidson&#8217;s complex, poignant story, Making It in America, revealed some chilling data about where American manufacturing is headed. It&#8217;s a matter of simple math. Maddie makes less in two years than a $100,000 machine would cost, so her job is safe\u2014for now.<\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere in America, robots are getting cheaper and more sophisticated, and they&#8217;re landing better, more advanced jobs. They are driving cars, writing newspaper articles, and filling prescriptions, displacing people with years of schooling and training under their belts. It sounds like a classic sci-fi story, but that disconcerting future isn&#8217;t in the future. It&#8217;s here today.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cord Jefferson: On a visit to Standard Motor Products&#8217; fuel-injector assembly line in South Carolina, Atlantic writer Adam Davidson asked why a worker there, Maddie, was welding caps onto the injectors herself. Why not use a machine? That&#8217;s how a lot of the factory&#8217;s other tasks were performed. Maddie&#8217;s supervisor, Tony, had a bracing, direct [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4901"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4901"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4901\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}