koods said:

Sounds like it’s more like a migrant worker program than actual immigration. Workers cannot stay permanently and can’t bring their families.

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Accordinf to Brian Jones top-shelf logic, it sounds like Japan will need to loosen immigration laws to keep up with the labor shortage. Time will tell whan Japan descides as necessary to refuek their economy

LogicaL Chaos said:

koods said:

Sounds like it’s more like a migrant worker program than actual immigration. Workers cannot stay permanently and can’t bring their families.

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Accordinf to Brian Jones top-shelf logic, it sounds like Japan will need to loosen immigration laws to keep up with the labor shortage. Time will tell whan Japan descides as necessary to refuek their economy

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yeah said:

my FB friend tried to get Mexican food in Japan and the cook put curry powder in the rice

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DividedQuantum said:

I agree with you. The notion of workforces is becoming more and more obsolete, especially in a hyper-developed collective like Japan. They'll automate fully probably before everyone else, including China which has so many people, and then this whole issue of labor shortage will mean nothing. I take the long view of it, and it won't be that long, really. Without some practical UBI, everyone will be in huge trouble in less than twenty years.

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DividedQuantum said:

I agree with you. The notion of workforces is becoming more and more obsolete, especially in a hyper-developed collective like Japan. They'll automate fully probably before everyone else, including China which has so many people, and then this whole issue of labor shortage will mean nothing. I take the long view of it, and it won't be that long, really. Without some practical UBI, everyone will be in huge trouble in less than twenty years.

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It turns out that even robots are having a tough time holding down a job. Japan’s Henn-na “Strange” Hotel has laid off half its 243 robots after they created more problems than they could solve, as first reported by The Wall Street Journal.

One of the layoffs included a doll-shaped assistant in each hotel room called Churi. Siri, Google Assistant, and Alexa can answer questions about local businesses’ opening and closing times, but Churi couldn’t. When hotel guests asked Churi “What time does the theme park open?” it didn’t have a good answer. That was a problem because Churi was supposed to help ameliorate the Strange Hotel’s staff shortage by substituting in for human workers.

Others on the chopping block:

    Two velociraptor robots positioned at check-in were also decommissioned because human workers essentially had to do their jobs for them and photocopy guests’ passports manually.
    Two robot luggage carriers could only reach about 24 of the over 100 rooms in the hotel and failed in rain or snow. They would also often get stuck trying to pass by each other.
    The hotel’s main concierge robot also didn’t know how to answer questions about flight schedules and nearby tourist attractions. It has since been replaced by a human.

Many of the robots that have been retired were in service for years, making them outdated. The hotel decided it was easier to fire them than to replace them, citing high costs. And in the end, a lot of the work had to be left to humans anyway, especially when it came to asking more complex questions. It seems we’re still a little ways off from a completely automated hotel.

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qman said:

DividedQuantum said:

I agree with you. The notion of workforces is becoming more and more obsolete, especially in a hyper-developed collective like Japan. They'll automate fully probably before everyone else, including China which has so many people, and then this whole issue of labor shortage will mean nothing. I take the long view of it, and it won't be that long, really. Without some practical UBI, everyone will be in huge trouble in less than twenty years.

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This "shortage of labor" nonsense isn't anything new.  https://www.marketwatch.com/story/us-job-openings-jump-to-record-71-million-2018-10-16

Yet, there's little to no wage growth and now interest rates have been crashing lower.  None of those indicators are pointing to a shortage of labor, it's pure BS.

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Psilynut2 said:

Construction work like mine will never be automated . You would literally need to build a terminator that has  advanced critical thinking abilities to do what I do .

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