Comment on Amazon's drone delivery program is the joke it always sounded like.
afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world 10 months agoI 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.
afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I am glad they are well paid, does that mean they aren’t doing a job that takes about a third grader level of education to perform? No. Does that mean it isn’t deadend? No.
Being well paid means exactly that and nothing more. EMT workers doing vital work but are often paid only a bit above minimum wage. Banksters are paid millions and produce nothing except taxpayer funded fraud.
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Being well paid means your family does better than all the people living paycheck-to-paycheck. I’m not sure why you think that isn’t something people really want or that it’s a dead end. I would say being paid a small salary and getting deeper and deeper into debt would be the dead end.
I’m also not sure why you are degrading drivers by saying their job can be done by stupid people.
afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Ok? Most of us have an ambition beyond eat shit and sleep. We want to work on better more challenging stuff.
Can you show me where I said that?