Fuck the clankers!
Inside Amazon’s Plans to Replace Workers With Robots
Submitted 5 months ago by silence7@slrpnk.net to technology@lemmy.world
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firepenny@lemmy.world 5 months ago
echodot@feddit.uk 5 months 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.
vane@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Good people create bad times.
UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml 5 months ago
Nukes create no times.
danh2os@piefed.social 5 months ago
Gonna have to replace Amazon orders with humans soon.
ryper@lemmy.ca 5 months ago
Maybe if the robots get damaged at the same rate their workers get injured they’ll get more interested in safety.
UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml 5 months ago
This has already happened.
Robots get AC. Humans do not.
Usernameblankface@lemmy.world 5 months 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
etherphon@piefed.world 5 months 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.
Boozilla@lemmy.world 5 months ago
[deleted]HubertManne@piefed.social 5 months ago
Yes but blowjobs will never be cheaper or more plentiful. Well not for me or you but for the person we service it will be quite a deal.
SaraTonin@lemmy.world 5 months 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.
e461h@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
Never believe a billionaire’s sales-pitch
echodot@feddit.uk 5 months 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.
etherphon@piefed.world 5 months 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.
architect@thelemmy.club 5 months 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.
etherphon@piefed.world 5 months 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.
blackn1ght@feddit.uk 5 months 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.