To be depressed at low level of wages?

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I am looking for a new job and wages where I live have fallen to what people used to be paid 10 plus years ago. Even qualified social worker jobs are starting at £24,000. I am not a qualified social worker by the way, just an example. But there are so many jobs asking for a high level of skills and experience, but a low level of pay. And the few jobs paying anywhere approaching decent wages, are inundated with candidates.

But where is the money?

Hoarded offshore by the top 10%.

Shes older and not dependent on the wage Its just a bit of extra money.

Helena that's shocking. No one should work late on Christmas Eve for no pay. Or spend their entire wages on Boxing Day just getting to work. Either work pays the cab fare or they can't get in. People used to strike about this sort of treatment. Everyone is so downtrodden now. It's worrying.

Automation - it’ll be cheaper to automate than paying workers minimum wage to do an unskilled job. What happens to these people, some of whom perhaps won’t be able to retrain to do a more skilled / educated job?

This is completely illogical as employing people on minimum wage is cheap. The first jobs that will go are better paid ones that follow rules. So potentially accountancy, legal roles, insurance, train driving etc.

But retail is already starting to be automated. Self checkouts etc, Amazon stores. Amazon warehouses will probably be automated soon.

www.retailgazette.co.uk/blog/2018/10/the-rise-of-automation-in-retail-should-retailers-be-worried/

“The British Retail Consortium (BRC) estimates that over the next 20 years, 60 per cent of jobs in retail will be at risk due to automation.”

“The rise of automation through AI will have a much more significant impact on retail than other industries.”

Yes agreed, it will happen in retail/ warehousing. But ultimately the driver for business is money so very often it makes more sense to automate better paid jobs is the point I'm making.

Is it not harder to automate professional jobs though?

Not necessarily where the roles follow strict rules/ mathematical-type code. And of course the robot would need to be scalable, so in other words lots of people would need to be doing similar/identical roles.

www.eadt.co.uk/business/changes-at-freeport-shopping-village-in-essex-1-5858599?fbclid=IwAR1bx6XZoTnbCIiMWWgGWmtQ2GAfKikSCLJsrfSEXkJBQVG-CSxAhHy1DQM