Comment on Warehouse automation hasn’t made workers safer — it’s just reshuffled the risk
Jason2357@lemmy.ca 2 days agoAutomation tech was also never about actually reducing humans either. Going all the way back to the broad loom, it always results in the same number of workers or greater - just that productivity (profits) increase and labour becomes de-skilled and more precarious.
CheeseNoodle@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
Last time though there was a one generation gap before new jobs appeared and a bunch of people got to die of cholera in overcrowded conditions.