Comment on Amazon's drone delivery program is the joke it always sounded like.
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 10 months agoBecause the same farmer was plowing the same field.
And a job is better than no job in the Western world if you want to eat and have a roof over your head.
afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Omg seriously? Do you have any freaken idea how developing world farming works? This is freaken sad. Ok fine. In the real world it wasn’t a farmer it was a farming family. Children as young as 3 would work the land. Being able to use an animal to plow unleashed abundant food and freed up multiple members of the family.
Yes having a job is better than not but that doesn’t mean you are entailed to a make work job because you refuse to use your brains.
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 10 months ago
When Amazon fires all of the delivery people for to save money, what are all of those delivery people supposed to do to buy things so that they can survive? People seem to think ‘just get another job’ is a viable answer to thousands of people out of work.
afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I don’t think your hypothetical is very likely especially in anything resembling the short term. These drones can lift a can of soup, not exactly a couch.
However if drones gradually replace drivers the drivers will get new jobs. The reason why this is being suggested to you repeatedly is because it is the solution to the problem. The cure for automation isn’t to stick your head in the dirt and demand your degrading jobs back the cure is training.
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 10 months ago
UPS delivery drivers fought for and won a $170,000 salary. Ask them how degrading they feel their job is.