Comment on Robot dogs priced at $300,000 a piece are now guarding some of the country’s biggest data centers
Jiral@lemmy.org 9 hours ago
Wouldn’t it be cheaper to pay vastly more versatile human guards a decent wage to guard those or more of those instead of those robots?
Pay a person?? Give a real human being money?!?
These people would rather burn a million dollars in front of a homeless person than give that person $1,000. It’s extra cruel when you realize that society would make that $1,000 back and then some if it were to help that person escape their poverty cycle.
Guards might turn on them, robot dogs are forever loyal.
Until we get robot cats. Or robot squirrels. Maybe a well-placed Furby.
It’s only a matter of time till “birds aren’t real” isn’t satire. I for one welcome our new robot overlords
right into a pile of magnets
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HertzDentalBar@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 hours ago
Basically yea, you’re paying a guard at most 45k a year in most places. I highly doubt these fucking things will last 4 years without major maintenance which will probably cost a month or two of a guards wages. So long term it costs far more compared to wages, but when you factor in labour laws and insurance it’s probably still cheaper to just hire people.
TrollTrollrolllol@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
But the c suite got to say “AI” a lot in their board meeting and pr statements
HertzDentalBar@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 hours ago
Yup 100% nothing’s real it’s just all feels