Warehouse automation hasn’t made workers safer — it’s just reshuffled the risk

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• themurphy@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Automation was never about safety in the first place.

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  • ClownStatue@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Exactly. Humans are wasteful and expensive. One day, capitalists will realize if they don’t hire any humans, nobody but the capitalists will have money to buy anything.

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    • Jason2357@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Automation tech was also never about actually reducing humans either. Going all the way back to the broad loom, it always results in the same number of workers or greater - just that productivity (profits) increase and labour becomes de-skilled and more precarious.

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    • iamdefinitelyoverthirteen@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Iwnt that the whole idea?

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