Comment on Amazon's drone delivery program is the joke it always sounded like.
afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world 10 months agoWaste 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
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 10 months ago
And they should do what instead to put food on the table?
afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world 10 months 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.
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 10 months ago
What other work? Do jobs just appear out of the ether for people with delivery experience on their resume?
afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world 10 months 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.
aphonefriend@lemmy.world 10 months ago
UBI comes to mind.
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 10 months 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.