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As technology advances, robots become more complex and more capable of doing a greater variety of things - at a faster, better and more consistent rate than if a human were to perform the same task. When robots have achieved a level of capability that business owners buy them and replace their human employees, you have a Job-Stealing Robot. The Job-Stealing Robot does not need to necessarily be a robot; a piece of software or other type of machine may do the trick. The point is that artificial constructs are being built and are replacing the old workforce. Definitely Truth in Television: advances in computing, artificial intelligence, robotics have led to a lot of manual, analytical and office jobs being replaced or consolidated. Unless humans begin to augment themselves to match these machines' capabilities, there's little chance that man will dominate machine in an increasing amount of fields of competence. While technically this would allow humans to free themselves from monotone tedious labor as productivity increases, making people displaced by robots benefit from robot-made goods would require a major overhaul of the economy, necessitating political and social solutions, not merely technological. Many socio-political theorists and futurists do believe that, at some point before the middle of this century if technological progress is any indication, robots will indeed replace the vast majority of human jobs, effectively leading to a "Post-Capitalist" social order. While no one is quite sure of what exactly will that entail, this is bound to result in a net increase of humanity's prosperity - the question is whether everyone will be able to benefit from it or humanity would be divided into robot owners and everyone else. In the worst case scenario, reserved for Dystopias, elites refuse to share the newfound prosperity and solve unemployment by killing the poor now that they are unnecessary. A plot that involves this trope will most likely also involve someone hating the robot for the fact that they steal people's jobs - especially theirs. An application of Technology Marches On and subtrope of Man Versus Machine. Overlaps with Ludd Was Right. When someone fights against the Job-Stealing Robot, particularly when using questionable means, you're looking at an Evil Luddite. More often that not, due to the fact that humans tend to triumph or compromise with machines by story's end. Compare Undead Laborers for the fantasy counterpart. Contrast We Will Use Manual Labor in the Future. Compare and Contrast Rotten Robotic Replacement, which is about a single character or group being replaced, with disastrous results. See also Obsolete Occupation, for those career paths that have gone out of date. |
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The Inspector has the episode "Les Miserobots", in which the Inspector is replaced by robot cop who is so efficient, it ends up taking the Commissioner's job by the end! | |
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This theme is especially explored in Fallout 76, with the pre-war remains of numerous anti-automation riots being strewn around Appalachia, as well as contributing heavily to the backstories of many of the local pre-war mining companies. | |
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Stunt Dawgs: In one episode, Fungus orders Whiz Kid to build a stunt robot that steals the Stunt Dawgs' jobs. The stunt robot is so good that Fungus decides to fire the Stunt Scabs except for Whiz Kid, who'll be needed whenever the stunt robot needs repairs. | |
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In Heroes for Sale, laundromat workers start rioting because a new machine has taken their jobs. | |
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In Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey, Bill & Ted get killed and replaced by "evil robot us'es" which look exactly like Bill & Ted, but are programmed to be evil in order to destroy Bill & Ted's reputation so they don't become awesome rock stars and turn the world to peace. They fight back by recruiting an alien genius who builds "good robot us'es" capable of destroying the evil ones, even though they look like they were cobbled together from random appliances (they were). They also make for great backup dancers. | |
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The TaleSpin episode "From Here to Machinery" featured robot pilots putting the regular cargo fliers out of business. The robot was ultimately revealed to have a critical flaw of only ever flying in a straight line, rendering it easy prey for air pirates. | |
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What's New? with Phil and Dixie. In Dragon magazine #63 (July 1982) the strip had a robot Phil that was designed to replace the real Phil Foglio on the staff. Phil managed to defeat the robot by shorting him out with water, but then a robot Dixie appeared... Read it here. | |
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Meta Inversion: The strip Robotman became Robotman and Monty, and then finally just Monty when Robotman was written out. | |
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Batman: Arkham Knight has The Riddler builds an army of robots and has them replace his old goons with Riddlerbots doing most of their former jobs including placing Riddler Trophies and setting up challenges Batman needs to complete to obtain said trophies. Enemy Chatter shows most of the thugs are pissed about being without getting a severance package and even consider trying to unionize. Riddler still has the usual informants to be interrogated and the Catwoman's Revenge DLC show a group of thugs guarding the Robot Factory but once again Enemy Chatter makes it clear they hate the robots too. One thug even proposes destroying the factory for revenge before being reminded the factory contains the supercomputer allowing them to be paid (As Riddler was still in police custody at the time.) | |
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In Dishonored 2, brilliant and amoral inventor Kirin Jindosh has devised Mecha-Mooks called the Jindosh Clockwork Soldiers. While prohibitively expensive to manufacture (only a handful of units exist for his own use and various well-paying nobles) and prone to deadly glitches, members of the Karnaca Grand Guard are worried that the machines might eventually replace them, though the officers are confident that a mechanical army will still need human commanders. The servants at Jindosh's mansion also grumble he'll most likely devise domestic clockworks at some point to render their employment superfluous. | |
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In Top Gun: Maverick, Maverick's days as a test pilot risk coming to an end when less and less pilots are needed with the rise of attack drones unless he pushes a new prototype plane to Mach 10, which of course he does. Drones replacing pilots more and more is also brought up later on. | |
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The Simpsons: Mr. Burns has twice tried to replace all the workers at SNPP with robots. The first time is in "Last Exit to Springfield", in a fantasy sequence during a strike, and the robots run amok. The second time, in "Them, Robot", Burns fires everyone (except Homer) and replaces them with robots, which eventually (thanks to Homer) run amok. This time, the unemployed and underemployed former SNPP workers come to Burns' rescue, and he rehires them all. In "Bart Gets an Elephant", Bill and Marty (the radio DJs) are threatened to be replaced by a wisecracking computer if they don't make good on the promise of an elephant for Bart. The eulogy for Asa Phelps in "Curse of the Flying Hellfish" says that "He worked at the United Strut and Bracing Works as a molder’s boy, until he was replaced by a molder-matic and died." Bizarrely subverted in "Maximum Homerdrive", in which computer-driven long-haul trucks don't put the truckers out of work because the technology is owned by the truckers' union. They all (inexplicably) keep it a secret and pretend to still drive the trucks as normal. |
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In the Parks and Recreation episode "Doppelgangers", the Pawnee Parks Department is merged with the Eagleton Parks Department. Tom's counterpart, "Eric", turns out to be a computer program called Eagleton Reservation Information Center. In order to save his job, Tom takes advantage of Leslie not knowing that E.R.I.C. is nonhuman and pulls an Invented Individual scheme to convince her that "Eric" is an out-of-control racist drug-dealer. | |
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Walt Disney Studios was in financial straits after Sleeping Beauty didn't make its cost back, so Ub Iwerks adapted the xerography process to eliminate hand-inking. This led to the elimination of the Disney inking department. | |
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A sketch from The Kids in the Hall has this happening with the entirely nonsensical job of standing all day with your arms in a vat of dead fish. At the end, it turns out that the boss who made the call to replace all the workers with machines is himself secretly a robot. | |
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According to The Matrix backstory, this is the reason humans started fighting the machines. Artificial Intelligence had evolved to a point where machines became better than humans at everything. Eventually, the humans started discriminating against the machines and kicked them out. The machines claimed a worthless piece of desert, turned it into a gigantic company town for machines, and decided to export absolutely everything except labor so they couldn't steal jobs from abroad, but that just made humans angrier and started a war. And to twist the blade, this trope was inverted when the machines won the war; they discovered that humans were capable of some kind of psionic energy that gave them the power to subconsciously create energy from almost nothing, so they were all forcefully drafted as human crops in machine-grass fields. Initially the process was excruciatingly painful, and now it is totalitarian enslavement to the titular Lotus-Eater Machine Matrix. | |
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Humans: Mattie Hawkins believes there will be no skilled jobs for humans in the future. A newspaper headline in the Title Sequence also shows this fear. One of the members of We Are People partly bases his speech on this. | |
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Inverted in Warbot in Accounting: the titular warbot is a refrigerator-sized hunk of metal with a single crushing claw, meaning he is stunningly bad at typing, handling delicate objects, etc. | |
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In the Darkwing Duck episode "Star-Crossed Circuits", Launchpad isn't pleased with the D-2000, feeling that there's nothing he can do as Darkwing's sidekick that it can't (and won't) do as well. In fact, he can't even do any household chores. Darkwing's disenchantment with the device begins when it starts doing too much of his crime-fighting for him. | |
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Plenty of them in Cybervillage. One of the reasons Baragozin is hated. | |
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In Detroit: Become Human, Ridiculously Human Robots have taken over practically every job in the US, which has resulted in a 40% unemployment rate and a major factor behind the Fantastic Racism. | |
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In Eberron, the Warforged have this reputation mixed with a bit of "job-stealing immigrant" in the eyes of many people across Khorvaire. Frequently treated more as things than people, they also have to compete with returning human(oid) veterans for work. They often end up hired for repetitive, dangerous, or abjectly mind-numbing labor that their squishier counterparts can't or don't want to do, but pointing that out isn't likely to blunt the contempt they face. It's little wonder that more and more of them keep disappearing into the Mournland to join the Lord of Blades or the cult of the Becoming God. | |
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The House of Mouse episode "House of Genius" has Ludwig Von Drake replacing Mickey and his friends with robotic versions of themselves to increase efficiency (including a Donald robot that speaks coherently). However, the audience decides that they prefer the old workers. | |
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Yu-Gi-Oh! VRAINS: SOLtis, an android that helps with everyday life is accused of this trope by several workers. | |
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Discworld: In Feet of Clay, Sgt Colon has a conversation with a wick-dipper who's been made redundant since the candle factory started employing a golem. Averted in Making Money by Moist's swift intervention. Adora Belle Dearheart ends up bringing four thousand golems from the lost city of Um (yes, that's its name) to Ankh-Morpork. While they really would be job-stealing robots to the point of bankrupting the city (because unlike humans, they don't spend money), Moist decides to put them to good use not actually doing work, but burying themselves in a safe place and becoming the basis for his new currency. |
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Metalocalypse: While Pickles the Drummer is sent to rehab, he's replaced by a drum machine. It initially proves itself to be a superior replacement without the drinking problems, but the fame of being a rockstar somehow affects the machine and it develops addictions of its own. By the time Pickles is released from rehab, the machine has gone psychotic and the drummer must save his bandmates from the drum machine. | |
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The Academy Award-nominated short Technological Threat is about an office of cartoon dogs where the workers are replaced one by one (including the boss!) by nerdy-looking robots with literal pencil necks. Eventually, only one dog worker is left, who plots to rid the office of the robots. | |
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In an episode of Superfriends, Professor Goodfellow invents Goodfellow's Effort-Eliminating Computer (G.E.E.C.) and offers it free to the world to relieve the people of physical labor and mental activity. After only a month the world has started to grow soft. Then a mouse gets into the G.E.E.C. and begins wreaking havoc. | |
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Metropolis (2001) also has a pivotal plot point about robots being loathed for causing high unemployment rates, so much so that a whole subterranean level of the city, "Zone 1", is inhabited by those who lost their jobs, and are on the verge of revolting against the higher-ups in the surface who allowed this to happen. | |
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In the Dudley Moore episode of The Muppet Show, Dudley brings with the Music And Mood Management Apparatus, a robot programmed to play any sort of music for any scene. The machine is quickly resented by the Show's normal musicians for endangering their livelihood, especially when Kermit decides to give the device a try. It is eventually destroyed when it interrupts Gonzo's bomb-defusing act. | |
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Averted in Making Money by Moist's swift intervention. Adora Belle Dearheart ends up bringing four thousand golems from the lost city of Um (yes, that's its name) to Ankh-Morpork. While they really would be job-stealing robots to the point of bankrupting the city (because unlike humans, they don't spend money), Moist decides to put them to good use not actually doing work, but burying themselves in a safe place and becoming the basis for his new currency. | |
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This trope sets up the series American Flagg!. Actor Reuben Flagg, star of the hit TV show Mark Thrust: Sexus Ranger, gets replaced by his own Tromplographicâ„¢ Ink-Suit Actor duplicate. He then gets drafted into the real Rangers and sent to Chicago, which is where the story begins. | |
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In A.I.: Artificial Intelligence, Gigolo Joe boasts to one of his clients that "Once you've had a lover robot, you will never want a real man again." (That's no idle boast. Sex ''dolls'' with far fewer features than Gigolo Joe is shown to have are already stealing prostitutes' jobs.) | |
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Batman: The Brave and the Bold: "Plague of the Prototypes" has Batman assisted in his never-ending fight against evil with a small army of Bat-Bots, but things go wrong when the mob boss Black Mask has the Bots hacked and reprogrammed to aid his gang, the False Face Society, with their plot to Take Over the City. Throughout the episode, the Bat-Bots prove so much stronger, more durable, and better at following orders than the False Face Society that Black Mask decides to have his human henchmen executed because the Bat-Bots have made them superfluous. | |
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The Twilight Zone (1959): In the episode "The Brain Center at Whipple's", a callous business executive replaces all of his workers with machines, putting them out of work. At the end, he suffers karmic justice as he is replaced by Robby the Robot. | |
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DuckTales (1987): In the episode "Armstrong", the titular robot quickly puts Launchpad and most of Scrooge's other employees out of a job... until he goes crazy and takes over Scrooge's money bin. However, the triplets bring in Launchpad, and Armstrong is stopped. This actually gets subverted in the very next episode, "Robot Robbers". Scrooge castigates Gyro for building giant construction machines for Flintheart Glomgold, thinking they are robots like Armstrong. Gyro points out these machines are actually run by a worker inside the "head". Which becomes a problem when the Beagle Boys steal them to try and break into Scrooge's money bin. |
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Inspector Gadget (1999): Mayor Wilson speculates on this. This is also what Claw has in mind for the RoboGadget prototype. |
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"Sally": Jacob Folkers was a chauffeur, but self-driving cars, like the titular Sally, eliminate his job entirely. Fortunately, his current employer irrationally refuses to trust the machine and keeps Jake around to clean and repair the car. | |
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Likewise, in Fallout: New Vegas, there are terminal entries in the Sunset Sasparilla bottling plant discussing plans to replace its workers with RobCo's robots. | |
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Spark the Electric Jester: The titular protagonist of the same name is actually fired and replaced by a robot twice, first as an engineer and second as a circus worker, for which he is replaced by a not so convincing copy of himself, which he nicknamed "Fark". | |
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2000 AD: A common theme in Judge Dredd stories is citizens struggling to cope with mass unemployment caused by nearly all jobs being performed by robots. By some estimates, the unemployment rate in Mega-City One is between 87-91%. With jobs nearly impossible to get, the citizens of Mega-City One struggle to find ways to keep themselves occupied. Among the most popular are getting as fat as humanly possible and engaging in various crimes, the latter of which partially explains the nightmarishly-high crime rate. The Simping Detective (a spinoff of Dredd) has an inversion. Zig is a janitor for a large company because it's cheaper to hire him than use robot janitors. Tharg's Future Shocks: Ulysses Sweet is hired by a group of human workers who have lost their jobs to robots so that he'll wipe out their opposition. However, the humans turn on each other after they realize that they'll now have to do all the unpleasant and difficult jobs that humans either don't want or don't know how to do anymore. Also, Ulyssess was a mole for the robots, who hired him to get rid of those pesky humans. |
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Hidden Figures takes place when NASA had their calculations performed by human computers with a pencil and calculator. But when Dorothy Vaughan, the supervisor-in-all-but-name of the "colored" computer team, sees an IBM mainframe being installed she realizes that she and her team will be out of a job soon. So, she learns Fortran and teaches her team how to run it. | |
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Comes up in Galaxy of Fear: The Doomsday Ship. It's a Star Wars book, so droids are everywhere, but it's noted that there are things they can't do which organic beings can. For one, droids are rarely able to exceed or surpass their programming; without extensive modification, most have trouble with things not closely related to what they're designed to handle. A prototype AI is being installed into a ship which is adaptable and can handle things its human crew does, to the resentment of its captain. | |
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Fallout 3: This happened in a Nuka-Cola bottling plant in which a robot called Milo was made the supervisor of a group of workers. It began locking employees in a closet for days for things like taking slightly-too-long breaks and leaving a toilet seat up. Something would presumably have been done about this had the the War not come first. According to a terminal in the Supply Plant from The Pitt DLC, before the war the factory's workers were replaced by modified Protectrons; when they found out, they blamed the foreman and tried to murder him, (even though he tried to cover for them). When the robots were sent to stop the confrontation the workers attacked them and were promptly vaporized. |
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Ascendance of a Bookworm: Myne's Giving Radio to the Romans includes introducing the printing press in a setting in which books are individually handcrafted luxury items involving the labor of multiple people. One of the reasons she eventually needs to get adopted into nobility is that handwriting books is a job frequently found in the Impoverished Patrician class and introducing something that will start slowly eating away at their source of revenue and eventually force them to learn a brand new trade to keep having a job in the best-case scenario can only be done as someone of even higher status. | |
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Aliens in the Family: After Cookie gets a job and wants to build robots to increase productivity, the president of the company decides to fire all the employees and replace them with robots. | |
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This is a recurring theme in early Occupy Richie Rich posts, as a consequence of the Crapsack World the Rich family live in. | |
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In WarGames, the computer is used to replace human commanders in charge of missile silos. Leo McGarry glances significantly at the machine when he's being relieved by it. Although this isn't so much about lost jobs as it is about the increased risk of A Nuclear Error. | |
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In one The Simpsons comic, Homer is given a controlling share of Duff Brewery, and discovers the previous owner had vetoed a plan to have the brewery staffed by robots. He overturns the veto, but doing so makes him unpopular with the employees, who sabotage the robots and go on strike. | |
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In an episode of The New Fred & Barney Show, Fred's new robotic butler does such a good job at the quarry that Fred is no longer needed there. However, the robot doesn't need the money he's earning either, so he gives it all back to Fred, much to Fred's delight. Barney then decides to buy a robot to work for him, too, except it's a female robot, and both robots then proceed to elope. Fred and Barney, now broke, have no choice but to keep working at the quarry, disguised as robots to fool their boss (who therefore expects them to work more efficiently than a human...) | |
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Total Recall 2070 had an episode about it, which mentions official regulations such as at least X% of workers being human. | |
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In the Pre-War era of Fallout, one of the many problems with modern society was sky-high unemployment rates due to robots replacing human workers. Fallout 3: This happened in a Nuka-Cola bottling plant in which a robot called Milo was made the supervisor of a group of workers. It began locking employees in a closet for days for things like taking slightly-too-long breaks and leaving a toilet seat up. Something would presumably have been done about this had the the War not come first. According to a terminal in the Supply Plant from The Pitt DLC, before the war the factory's workers were replaced by modified Protectrons; when they found out, they blamed the foreman and tried to murder him, (even though he tried to cover for them). When the robots were sent to stop the confrontation the workers attacked them and were promptly vaporized. Likewise, in Fallout: New Vegas, there are terminal entries in the Sunset Sasparilla bottling plant discussing plans to replace its workers with RobCo's robots. This theme is especially explored in Fallout 76, with the pre-war remains of numerous anti-automation riots being strewn around Appalachia, as well as contributing heavily to the backstories of many of the local pre-war mining companies. Inverted by the lumberjack Protectron rolling around Fallout 76 which says “Lumberjack Protectron. Does not want. To lose job to. Cheap! Human. Labor.� |
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In Breakfast of Champions, one of several billboards put up in Midland City during the Great Depression by the Robo-Magic Corporation of America, and written by its founder Fred T. Barry, advertised the company's washing machines with a image of a black maid comically popping her eyes out at two deliverymen carrying a Robo-Magic into a house and exclaiming in a Speech Balloon: "Feets, get movin'! Dey's got theirselves a Robo-Magic! Dey ain't gonna be needin' us 'roun' here no mo'!" Barry's dream that Robo-Magic appliances would one day take care of "all the Nigger work of the world" (white women such as Dwayne Hoover's stepmother and Vonnegut's own mother and sister considered such chores as cleaning, cooking and ironing to be "Nigger work" and refused to do it themselves) never quite came to be, as the Robo-Magic company found more success applying its electronic technology to weapons development during World War II and became known as the Midland City Ordnance Company. However, it seems that white residents of Midland City did find other ways to do most of the work they used to hire black people for (one workman says he doesn't know how much horsepower the digging machine he operates has, but "we call it The Hundred-Nigger Machine"), since the city now has a chronic racial problem: | |
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I, Robot: This is yet another of many reasons for Will Smith's character to disdain robots. He invokes this when proposing a new slogan for a robotics company: "Shitting on the Little Guy". | |
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Girl Genius: Played for Laughs with the dingbots, Agatha's little helper-clanks. When they start acting on their own without input from any of the scientists, the Mad Scientists of the world start getting worried. | |
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Terminator: Dark Fate opens with Dani's brother losing his job to an industrial robot literally overnight. A parallel is drawn between this trope and military AI like Skynet, discussing how humanity always searches for ways to replace manpower with machines, to advance science no matter the human cost. As the Terminator itself says in the second film, it is in our nature. | |
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RoboCop is initially feared to be this by his fellow cops, but he eventually is accepted as a valuable comrade who just happens to be particularly tough with special abilities that can take on threats head on and draw fire from his fellows. To be fair, Murphy is the only one who manages to go through the transformation without being Driven to Suicide. In the 2014 reboot, Robocop is meant for much the same purpose, except the intent is to use him as a publicity tool so they can legalize the use of actual robots on US soil. | |
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In the Star Trek: Lower Decks episode "The Stars at Night", Admiral Buenamigo proposes that the California class be retired in favor of his new fully automated Texas class. The claim is that the new AI ships can do the job of the Californias in a fraction of the time. Except it turns out that the AI ships make a crucial mistake related to the Prime Directive, and a major flaw is discovered in their programming that results in them turning against Buenamigo and Starfleet. All three completed AI ships (Aledo, Dallas, and Corpus Christi) are destroyed by the end of the episode, ironically by the same California-class ships they were meant to replace. | |
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Extinction (2018): This is one of the complaints we see frequently leveled at androids in the flashbacks. | |
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There's an episode of Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi when robots replaced the girls as rock stars. Thankfully, they get their positions back. | |
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In Transhuman Space, automation has eliminated most unskilled jobs, putting anyone without a university degree (or a creative job and an audience) out of work. In the developed world, governments compensate for this with a welfare system that makes work a choice rather than a necessity, and only about 30% of the population actually work full-time. Poorer countries can't support this kind of social security; many try to make up for it by mandating that factories employ a certain number of people in makework jobs. Others simply tax automated factories to pay for welfare programs; this is called the "Libyan Tax" after Libya, who were the country to introduce the idea. | |
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The second episode of Family Matters had a plot where Harriet lost her job as an elevator operator because the newspaper she worked for installed an automated elevator. She applied for and got rehired by the company as Director of Security, after a Rousing Speech about how raising her family gave her all the skills and on-the-job training for the position. | |
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In the Star Trek: The Original Series episode "The Ultimate Computer", Starfleet decides it's a great idea for a computer to replace Kirk as captain of the Enterprise. The computer goes evil, of course. | |
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Real Humans: Roger and many other people lost jobs to them, and it's used as a stock argument by the Real Humans party. | |
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In the Regular Show episode "K.I.L.L.I.T. Radio", the titular radio station was gradually taken over by an automated system until only one human employee is left - the station's former top DJ, now reduced to providing maintenance on the machines. | |
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The Futurama episode "Obsoletely Fabulous" features Bender upset about being replaced by a better robot. | |
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An episode of Power Rangers Lightspeed Rescue features a scientist introducing a group of Robot Rangers. This leads to the Lightspeed Rangers out of work...until the robots malfunction. | |
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The Veldt: Lydia has come to consider her family's fully automated house to be one, fearing that it has replaced her as a mother-figure to her and George's children. A child psychologist eventually confirms that she's right. | |
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Tharg's Future Shocks: Ulysses Sweet is hired by a group of human workers who have lost their jobs to robots so that he'll wipe out their opposition. However, the humans turn on each other after they realize that they'll now have to do all the unpleasant and difficult jobs that humans either don't want or don't know how to do anymore. Also, Ulyssess was a mole for the robots, who hired him to get rid of those pesky humans. | |
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In Portal 2, when exploring Old Aperture underground, you can see posters on the wall from when Aperture Science started using their own employees as test subjects and started using robots to do the humans' work. One of these posters features an employee (called "Karla the Complainer") complaining about her boss being a robot, and it assures readers that robots work harder than you, can do your job better than you, and are all-around better than you. | |
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This is brought up in Last Week Tonight with John Oliver when discussing an attempt by Lowe's to replace their sales associates with robots. John disapproves of this, not because he inherently disagrees with using robots in place of humans, but because robots are fundamentally incapable of performing the real job sales associates are there for: keeping couples from ruining their marriages over petty arguments. | |
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Not robots, but a similar idea in Bioshock 2: Its revealed that one of the first pebbles in the rockslide that was Rapture's descent into chaos was the public railroad that once connected the city getting upstaged by Frank Fontaine's personal bathysphere system, causing it to go bankrupt. Andrew Ryan and his inner circle had really heavily invested in the railroad, never considering that one of their investments might go sour, and Ryan forced a bank bailout to save the company, his power base, and their fortunes... at the cost of everyone else's savings. Rapture's economy was sent into a downward spiral that just got worse and worse, beginning the conflicts that would eventually blow up into civil war. | |
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Jade Empire, being set in a Fantasy Counterpart Culture of Imperial China, doesn't have robots, but the golems serve an equivalent purpose. Some of the Lotus Assassin acolytes fear that the rise of the golem army will result in fewer opportunities for the Assassins to serve. They resent the Spirit Monk, who is infiltrating the Assassins, for robbing them of their glory, and a few acolytes try to kill the Spirit Monk, who has killed multiple Lotus Assassins by this point. | |
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In Feet of Clay, Sgt Colon has a conversation with a wick-dipper who's been made redundant since the candle factory started employing a golem. | |
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Deus Ex: Human Revolution has a slight variation in the form of job-stealing cyborgs; one of the main anti-aug camps' arguments boils down to "cyborgs have an unfair advantage in the job market". The counter-argument is that cyborgs can do jobs baseline humans couldn't possibly manage (such as the construction of Panchaea, a gigantic geo-engineering facility in the Arctic that extends all the way to the ocean floor). The original Deus Ex also had cyborgs with older augments worried that the nano-tech enhanced protagonist will make them obsolete. One of the most confusing aspects of the series is its continued reliance on We Will Use Manual Labor in the Future. Even in Deus Ex: Invisible War, which is set twenty years after the original game and in a world of extremely advanced artificial intelligence, nanotechnology, and security robotics, there's very litle mention of job-killing automation whatsoever. Indeed, all menial jobs you encounter are staffed by humans (and cyborgs), and there's never any real mention or angst of the possibility of intelligent machines replacing humans in the workforce except in the background and as part of the endings. This despite the series' otherwise renowned and in-depth handling of future societal issues, many of which are beginning to enter wider social debates. |
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In the semi-futuristic setting of Logan, robot-controlled, cabinless trucks are used instead of traditional drivers. Besides having apparently thrown the industry somewhat out of whack, they direct traffic at everyone else's expense. | |
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Warhammer 40,000: Averted in the Imperium... not that it makes human lives any better. We Will Use Manual Labor in the Future is in full effect, with some of the most advanced weapons in the galaxy reloaded by slaves on treadmills. This is for several reasons: The last time humanity meddled with AI, the Iron Men rebelled and nearly won, humanity reaches populations in the billions for a single Mega City, and because general life expectancy is very short. Thankfully, the Imperium has a way to reconcile repetitive or dangerous tasks with automation: lobotomizing people and grafting cybernetics so as to produce servitors, who are used in everything from heavy lifting to suppressive fire to co-piloting ships to operating elevators. Averted by the Tau, who use a lot of actual A.I.s in their armies. Tau society is rigidly turned towards the concept of the Greater Good (every individual action is taken so it benefits the Tau as a whole), so not only is every worker needed for their job, they're fine with robotic assistance (and even then, the robots are given escape protocols so they too will retreat instead of being sacrificed, which runs counter to the Greater Good). Before you go thinking of the Tau as a utopia, it's entirely possible that their society runs thanks to mind-control pheromones. |
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In Transformers: Animated, some of the citizens of Detroit have this feeling towards the machines created by Isaac Sumdac. | |
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An e-mail in Five Nights at Freddy's: Security Breach mentions a manager who fired an employee who refused to serve a customer a meal they didn't have on the menu (it's a pizza place, but the customer ordered chicken alfredo) and replaced him with a S.T.A.F.F. bot. However, because the customer's order wasn't on the menu, the robot didn't know how to prepare it. The manager was promptly fired for wrongful termination. That is just one of many flimsy excuses Fazbear Entertainment used to fire humans in order to replace them with S.T.A.F.F. bots. This is why Vanessa is the only human guard on the night shift, despite how huge the PizzaPlex is. | |
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In I, Robot, most of the later stories taking place in space because organized labor ban robots from being used on Earth from fear of competition. However, robots eventually develop to the point that telling them apart from humans is impossible. | |
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Call of Duty: Black Ops III Drones and Combat robots are mentioned to be replacing Human infantry for the most part. However it is also mentioned while stronger and faster, most robots have slower reaction times than humans which alongside the Warfare Regression brought on by the DEAD System means humans still their place on the battlefield alongside Cyborg Super Soldiers who are forming a middle ground between normal humans and robots. | |
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Team Fortress 2: One of the lines said by the Soldier in the Tin Soldier Halloween outfit: | |
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A common theme in Judge Dredd stories is citizens struggling to cope with mass unemployment caused by nearly all jobs being performed by robots. By some estimates, the unemployment rate in Mega-City One is between 87-91%. With jobs nearly impossible to get, the citizens of Mega-City One struggle to find ways to keep themselves occupied. Among the most popular are getting as fat as humanly possible and engaging in various crimes, the latter of which partially explains the nightmarishly-high crime rate. | |
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The Simping Detective (a spinoff of Dredd) has an inversion. Zig is a janitor for a large company because it's cheaper to hire him than use robot janitors. | |
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Doctor Who: In "Kerblam!", despite the law requiring Kerblam! and, presumably, all similarly-sized MegaCorps to have a minimum of 10% organic staff, robotic workers causing mass unemployment is still a major problem throughout the galaxy. | |
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In The Wire union leader Frank Sobotka is horrified by the upcoming trend of mechanical automatization rendering stevedore manual labour obsolete. | |
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Inch High, Private Eye. In "Super Flea", the invention and subsequent theft of a Literal Surveillance Bug puts Inch High in a dilemma; if he doesn't find the mechanical flea, his boss will fire him, but if he does Inch High will become obsolete! | |
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"Galley Slave": Professor Ninheimer reveals his motivation to Dr Calvin at the end of the story; he had tried to frame robot EZ-27 because he believed that robots like EZ would obsolete the job of the scholar. | |
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In The Inexplicable Adventures of Bob!, a despondent Coney submitted to the procedure that turned him into a Living Ship after losing his office job to a robot, eons ago on a distant planet. | |
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An episode of The Avengers (1960s) had a small town taken hostage (with a nuke) by a general furious over being replaced with a machine. | |
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This is a pivotal plot point in Armitage III, due to the high employment rate of robots, on Mars. The human populace objects strongly, sometimes violently, to this and regularly hold public protests, to denounce robots and demand their jobs back. In fact, The War of Earthly Aggression stems from a particularly unusual example of this trope. Earth, having become a Lady Land, objects to the idea of Mars developing Ridiculously Human Robots that are capable of breeding with humans, thus stealing the "job" of pregnancy from human women. And incidentally ruining their power-base. | |
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The Animatrix gives us a rare example of "Economy-Stealing Robots". Due to a growing economic crisis, the Human Nations manufacturing and innovation were being outpaced by the highly-efficient Machine Nation of 01. 01 sent two ambassadors to the United Nations with a proposal to try solving the growing economic crisis in-exchange for recognition as a member of the UN Council; only for the Humans to deny their request and have the ambassadors destroyed out of spite; and leading to the beginning of the Human-Machine War. | |
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A fantastic variation is discussed in Plumbing the Death Star. One of the problems with Elsa's ice cream business in "Who's the Best Disney Business Princess?" is that it would create zero jobs, since she can create ice golems to do any labor she needs without paying them a single dime. This would only get worse if she fired or laid off any of the golems, since they would flood the market with free labor that no human could compete with. | |
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Legends of Tomorrow: Played with. When Hank is auditing the Legends, he asks why, if Gideon is a fully autonomous AI who can do anything on the ship, she needs a crew at all. He not-so-subtly implies they should get rid of everyone else to save money (nevermind that the Legends aren't actually being paid). Hank doesn't get an answer, but it's been demonstrated several times that Gideon needs people for repairs and maintenance, not to mention any excursions off the ship. | |
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Kingdom of Loathing parodies this with the description of the gingerbread welder robot, by having the robots be the ones who are out of work and need to crime to make ends meet. | |
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The Caves of Steel has people becoming unemployed due to robots being introduced by the Spacers. It is revealed to be part of a plan to create large numbers of unemployed people who will become a new wave of settlers. | |
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Subverted in Roughnecks: Starship Troopers Chronicles: C.H.A.S. is presented as a hyper-competent Automaton, that can do the job of any trooper better than they can (much to their annoyance). After his Heroic Sacrifice to save Higgens, the impressed company consider him a fellow trooper. Then it turns out the government decided that robots like C.H.A.S. were not cost-effective. | |
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Many of the Grantville Gazette short stories written to expand on the 1632 novels feature the impact of the uptimers introducing nineteenth or early twentieth century tools and factory designs to a seventeenth century world, which often force the guilds that do that job at the time to either retool or go out of business. | |
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Hollow Knight has the Stag, a giant beetle who takes great pride in his job as Hallownest's main means of transportation. He's generally a really friendly guy, unless he notices his current favorite customer (the Player Character, of course) got his hands on a tramway pass. He suddenly gets grumpy and tries to get the Knight to swear to never use the "grotesque contraption". | |
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WKRP in Cincinnati: In Yet Another Christmas Carol episode, Mr. Carlson is taken to the future, where he has replaced everyone at the station with computers except Herb (the sales manager). When another radio station tries to hire Venus away from WKRP, he learns that the entire station is automated; he'd be the Token Human on the air. |
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