{"id":2008,"date":"2017-02-10T08:05:08","date_gmt":"2017-02-10T14:05:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/markmeckler\/?p=2008"},"modified":"2017-02-10T08:16:08","modified_gmt":"2017-02-10T14:16:08","slug":"pretty-bad-government-job-pointless-replaced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markmeckler\/2017\/02\/pretty-bad-government-job-pointless-replaced\/","title":{"rendered":"It\u2019s pretty bad if your government job is so pointless you could be replaced by this"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><div class=\"getty embed image\" style=\"background-color: #fff; display: inline-block; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; color: #a7a7a7; font-size: 11px; width: 100%; max-width: 594px;\">\n<div style=\"padding: 0; margin: 0; text-align: left;\"><a style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/501831420\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"overflow: hidden; position: relative; height: 0; padding: 77.272727% 0 0 0; width: 100%;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"display: inline-block; position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; margin: 0;\" src=\"\/\/embed.gettyimages.com\/embed\/501831420?et=MvCLqtFIQ1hUJA-wKxiEmA&amp;viewMoreLink=off&amp;sig=fLmHKShfA0oUhrgi4UEW4b9hcIbchIGoYaYWJ63TYOU=&amp;caption=true\" width=\"594\" height=\"459\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p style=\"margin: 0;\">\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Ever since Arnold Schwarzenegger gave us <em>The Terminator<\/em>, people have been afraid that artificial intelligence would take over the planet. Already, we\u2019re seeing menial jobs replaced with automation and cars are driving themselves. Human-to-human contact is at an all time low as people are more connected to their devices than each other. Perhaps the robots are already taking over.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>But is that really a bad thing? I just heard about one area where it might not be. \u00a0In fact, it could actually be a nice way to fight\u00a0the bloated bureaucracy.<\/p>\n<p>According to a new study, 90 percent of British civil service employees have the kinds of jobs that even the proverbial monkey could do. The think tank, Reform, found that those workers could easily be replaced by robots and save the government nearly $8 billion every year. Imagine the economic impact that could have here in America.<\/p>\n<p>The study argues that robots are better data processors and are \u201cmore efficient\u201d at a host of other routine tasks which would remove the need for humans since there are so few\u00a0\u201ccomplex roles\u201d left in civil service to fill. The reason we\u2019re in this mess to begin with is all thanks to heavy-handed unions who work hard to ensure our government buildings are filled with too many people doing menial tasks, crunching numbers, and piling up miles and miles of paperwork. Robots could easily be doing this work in a fraction of\u00a0the time and they won\u2019t even demand a single smoke break.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2017-02-08\/most-government-workers-could-be-replaced-robots-new-study-finds\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">ZeroHedge<\/a> reports that this is not the only study of its kind:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Unfortunately for civil service workers, it seems the study is just the latest in a series of research that won\u2019t save their jobs.\u00a0Oxford University and financial services provider Deloitte, both of whom commissioned their own studies\u00a0concur with Reform\u2018s conclusions. The Oxford University study said that more than 850,000 public sector jobs could fall to robots over the course of the next decade.<\/p>\n<p>Reform suggests that government employees should probably look into opportunities presented by the \u201csharing economy,\u201d like driving for Uber \u2013 at least until robots replace those, too.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I\u2019ve heard of worse ways to shrink the federal deficit.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Click CONTINUE to see that robots are already taking over, like it or not:<\/strong><br>\n<!--nextpage--><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/uLzXSQKOY1k?rel=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These might be the droids we\u2019re looking for.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2673,"featured_media":2016,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - 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