Robots providing better shareholder value than CdM

[garbon]

We already knew he's a monster.

[Valmy]

We already knew he's a monster.

[Iormlund]

Well duh, he does like the French.

[Josquius]

We desperately need competent roboticians.

Damnit I should have been a mechanical engineer.  Oh well too late now.

Engineers who work with robots over here tend to have degrees in Electronics (or Automation if available). You don't really need an engineering degree though, vocational training might suffice. It's one of those skills you can only acquire on the job (awfully hard to get a robot to tinker with otherwise).
However, some knowledge of mechanics comes handy if you want to become a welding expert as well. Someone who is both a good robotician and welder, is the kind of thing that's really hard to find.

Electronics. Now there's something I should have studied. Those electrical engineering guys have it made

[Ideologue]

Yep.  Or welding.

[Admiral Yi]

I've talked to some guys who said welders don't command the premium they used to, and that a lot of the super high paying underwater welding jobs these days are done by robots.

[derspiess]

Robots eat old people's medicine for fuel.

[Ed Anger]

Robots eat old people's medicine for fuel.

MAH MAXIDE

[Valmy]

Well duh, he does like the French.

They have style, they have class, they failed to kick Ecuador's ass

[Ideologue]

Robots eat old people's medicine for fuel.

And you can't stop them, because robots are strong, and made of metal.

[grumbler]

Berkut's got a pretty great point there.  There's going to come a point where the wealth of society is going to have to be nationalized, or you're going to have to exterminate eight or nine billion people--who will fight back.

Sometimes I don't really care which.  Whether that point is ten, twenty, thirty, or forty years from now, I'll probably have been dead for a while, and even if I'm not, having a distant satisfaction that I was right and most the people I know are blindered idiots would be truly cold comfort.

I can't believe that you think that you invented this concept!  Did you invent the internet, too?

[Eddie Teach]

He doesn't have to be the first person to believe something to be right about it...

[crazy canuck]

He doesn't have to be the first person to believe something to be right about it...

Except that people have been predicting similar economic apocalyptic outcomes since the early 1800s and none of them have been right...

[Eddie Teach]

He doesn't have to be the first person to believe something to be right about it...

Except that people have been predicting similar economic apocalyptic outcomes since the early 1800s and none of them have been right...

I'm not saying Ide is right; I'm saying grumbler's criticism is inapplicable to the post he quoted.

[grumbler]

He doesn't have to be the first person to believe something to be right about it...

He would be if the alternative to believing as he does is to be one of the "blindered idiots."  Not even the (uncredited by him) people who really invented the proposition that he is using proposed that.  Hyperbolic use of someone else's ideas without acknowledging them appears like it is supposed to be an original proposal.