Amazon’s humanoid warehouse robots will eventually cost only $3 per hour to operate. That won’t calm workers’ fears of being replaced.::The robot’s human-like shape is bound to reignite workers’ fears of being replaced, but Amazon says they’re designed to “work collaboratively.”

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    1 year ago

    I mean, the workers can find another job to be useful to society.

    Automation is a good thing.

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      1 year ago

      Yeah, that has worked really well in the past. At least here in the US when people are pushed out of jobs to enrich capitalists we tend to find a way to criminalize them and warehouse them in prisons while their communities rot.

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        1 year ago

        Well, if the people really cared about their well-being and doing less work then they would enact laws to ensure the redistribution of wealth.