Aug 28, 2012

#6 Chrome-collar worker

A robot worker.

Theodore K. Arduino, a self-described post-industrial labor economist from Beaverton, Oregon, was making the podcast rounds to promote his self-published Kindle e-book, "Why Robosourcing is the New Outsourcing." Arduino called for a moratorium on industrial robotics, arguing that the rise of chrome-collar workers would massively disrupt the labor market by displacing over 87% of the blue-collar workforce and 57% of the white-collar workforce worldwide. His labor forecasts were based on projections made by his Roomba.