Submitted 4 months ago by BeatTakeshi@lemmy.world to aboringdystopia@lemmy.world
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Am I the only person who sees an underpaid, underinsured, entrapped worker slaving away making coffees all day as equally dystopian, if not more?
If there’s any vsaving grace for rampant automation, this is fine enough, it isn’t art, it isn’t critical decision making, it’s just coffee.
“But can it make coffee?” The answer is finally yes, why aren’t you glad?
It may surprise you that some people actually enjoy making coffee all day, the issue is not the occupation but the compensation.
Holding an honest job is something to be respected, not mocked.
Ok, so when is society going to start respecting those people?
Now they get paid even less to clean and restock similar kiosks all over the city.
Less then minimum wage?
I’m not sure!
You know, I used to long for the day that 90% of comerse would be handled by vending machines…
Coffee machines have been a thing for I don’t know how many decades, but they complicate it like this…
A vending machine people will pay more for because they can see inside.
It’s really just a gimmick.
And now I want a ground-coffee vending machine made from glass.
And I guess it’s less fast and efficient compared to a normal vending machine specifically designed to brew coffee
They are paying for the show after all.
It’s just a vending machine what makes this a dystopia?
IDK, but it perfectly encapsulates the hype.
So this isn’t so much a vending machine replacement as it is a coffee kiosk replacement. One that would normally have a human employee or two and is now manned by a robot. The customer will likely end up paying more for their coffee due to the gimmick of the robot. And you know the payment screen is still going to ask for a tip even though the robot doesn’t need it.
You’d think the tip would go to the guy who comes in at night to clean and restock, but he’s likely paid even less than the baristas.
The openly top robots get is the Boston dynamics body slam.
Guess that it is setup to look like a coffee shop, instead of a normal vending machine.
_cryptagion@anarchist.nexus 4 months ago
What’s dystopian about a vending machine?