Inside Amazon’s Plans to Replace Workers With Robots
Inside Amazon’s Plans to Replace Workers With Robots
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Using robots for dreary drudge work could be a good thing with something like UBI to go along with it. But instead of fully automated luxury gay space communism, they will implement "Gilded Age 2.0: The Worser Dystopia", instead.
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Yeah, robots doing drudge work is exactly the future we were promised. It’s just that that’s supposed to allow humans to have more free time to pursue their interests, not die in a ditch from starvation.
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Never believe a billionaire’s sales-pitch
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I think something like UBI is basically an inevitability. If government's try to ignore the problem the entire economic system will collapse, there'll be a lot of production going on, but there won't be anyone to buy any of the products. So they will have to introduce UBI.
However it would be nice if they could introduce it before the inevitable civil wars and civil unrest force them to.
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Destroying millions of jobs to shave 30 cents off an item, or rather pocket it, what could possibly go wrong.
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The problem isn’t the robots taking the jobs. The problem are the capitalists taking it all for themselves. No one wants those jobs man. They fucking suck. Automate them.
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Fuck the clankers!
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I love that we've come up with a slur for AI, but I do think it's kind of stupid. Clankers are robots, but there's plenty of AI taking people's jobs that has no effective physical presence. We need something more original.
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Good people create bad times.
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Nukes create no times.
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When the job requirements are so unsustainable and the safety is so sketchy that they plan for a high turnover rate, robots are the better option.
Yes, people have paid their bills because of these jobs. But I have a hard time believing that the money makes it worth the damage to their health that will follow the worker through their career. There are many other jobs like this that are better left to a machine or else lower the expectations per worker to improve working conditions
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I guess there must be other facilities that are much worse, or it depends who your managers are, but when I worked at a FC I thought it was one of the easier jobs I've held.
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Maybe if the robots get damaged at the same rate their workers get injured they'll get more interested in safety.
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This has already happened.
Robots get AC. Humans do not.
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Gonna have to replace Amazon orders with humans soon.
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Technology has been replacing manual labour for a long time, this is hardly surprising. Some jobs will be created though as the robots need monitoring and maintenance.