Inside Amazon’s Plans to Replace Workers With Robots

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• Boozilla@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Using robots for dreary drudge work could be a good thing with something like UBI to go along with it. But instead of fully automated luxury gay space communism, they will implement “Gilded Age 2.0: The Worser Dystopia”, instead.

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  • SaraTonin@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Yeah, robots doing drudge work is exactly the future we were promised. It’s just that that’s supposed to allow humans to have more free time to pursue their interests, not die in a ditch from starvation.

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    • e461h@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Never believe a billionaire’s sales-pitch

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    • echodot@feddit.uk ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I think something like UBI is basically in inevitability. If government’s try to ignore the problem the entire economic system will collapse, there’ll be a lot of production going on, but there won’t be anyone to buy any of the products. So they will have to introduce UBI.

      However it would be nice if they could introduce it before the inevitable civil wars and civil unrest force them to.

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• blackn1ght@feddit.uk ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Technology has been replacing manual labour for a long time, this is hardly surprising. Some jobs will be created though as the robots need monitoring and maintenance.

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• etherphon@piefed.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

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  Destroying millions of jobs to shave 30 cents off an item, or rather pocket it, what could possibly go wrong.

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  • architect@thelemmy.club ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    The problem isn’t the robots taking the jobs. The problem are the capitalists taking it all for themselves. No one wants those jobs man. They fucking suck. Automate them.

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    • etherphon@piefed.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      I worked there for there years, there's lots of people who wants those jobs since they pay decently, it certainly better than no job.

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• Usernameblankface@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  When the job requirements are so unsustainable that they plan for a high turnover rate, robots are the better option.

  Yes, people have paid their bills because of these jobs. But I have a hard time believing that the money makes it worth the damage to their health that will follow the worker through their career. There are many other jobs like this that are better left to a machine or else lower the expectations per worker to improve working conditions

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  • etherphon@piefed.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I guess there must be other facilities that are much worse, or it depends who your managers are, but when I worked at a FC I thought it was one of the easier jobs I've held.

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• vane@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Good people create bad times.

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  • UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Nukes create no times.

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• ryper@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Maybe if the robots get damaged at the same rate their workers get injured they’ll get more interested in safety.

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  • UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    This has already happened.

    Robots get AC. Humans do not.

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• firepenny@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Fuck the clankers!

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  • echodot@feddit.uk ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I love that we’ve come up with a slur for AI, but I do think it’s kind of stupid. Clankers are robots, but there’s plenty of AI taking people’s jobs that has no effective physical presence. We need something more original.

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• danh2os@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Gonna have to replace Amazon orders with humans soon.

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