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Comment on Amazon's drone delivery program is the joke it always sounded like.

afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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

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FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
And they should do what instead to put food on the table?

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- afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Find other work? I apologize the rest of the human race doesn’t want to subsidize your lifestyle of thinking as little as possible.
  
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  - FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    What other work? Do jobs just appear out of the ether for people with delivery experience on their resume?
    
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    afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Truck driver? You know the most common job in the US. Do the people who you are advocating for know you have so little respect for their intelligence that you think they literally can do nothing else except drive a van around? I would be pretty insulted if someone was saying that my limitations were my current job.
    
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- aphonefriend@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  UBI comes to mind.
  
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  - FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    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.
    
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