Comment on Amazon's drone delivery program is the joke it always sounded like.
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 10 months agoDelivery trucks require a human to drive.
Ok… and? How is that a problem that needs solving?
Waste of resources. A human can do other things besides drive a van around all day. We spend all this money educating people. So they can do a job a person with a 3rd grade education can do?
Been in automation a long time. Have personally witnessed the primary task of a worker being replaced by a bin.
We should encourage anything that gets rid of mindless tasks and dehumanizes workers
And they should do what instead to put food on the table?
Find other work? I apologize the rest of the human race doesn’t want to subsidize your lifestyle of thinking as little as possible.
What other work? Do jobs just appear out of the ether for people with delivery experience on their resume?
UBI comes to mind.
Maybe we should implement that first and fire all the delivery people second? But as long as Amazon saves money, that’s the important thing.
helenslunch@feddit.nl 10 months ago
Humans are expensive and error-prone.
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Weird, they seem to have done just fine delivering things for centuries now…
helenslunch@feddit.nl 10 months ago
Define “just fine”? Needless deaths and property damage are caused by human drivers all the time. I mean we could deliver things “just fine” on foot but everyone would be waiting a lot longer…
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 10 months ago
All the time? I’d like to see the statistics on deaths caused by delivery drivers.
And I’m not sure why you think similar things wouldn’t happen with drones.
afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world 10 months ago
And they did just fine plowing up fields by hand.
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Replacing the hand plow with the horse plow didn’t needlessly cost anyone their job.