Comment on Amazon hopes to replace 600,000 US workers with robots, according to leaked documents
AA5B@lemmy.world 5 weeks agoIt only needs to do 5% of what a human can do. They’re basically talking about automating low wage warehouse people
While I realize these are decent sources of jobs in some economically depressed areas, it can’t be a very satisfying jobs and certainly the rest of us not directly affected should have no objection. While I have empathy toward those losing jobs, let’s lose them
recentSlinky@lemmy.ca 5 weeks ago
I totally agree! I think progress is the way to go, aside from death. And soul killing jobs have to die out with progress.
But the problem is i don’t think the current technological level of automation is even close enough to replace a significant enough portion of these jobs.
Because if they can, we won’t have basically all the rich assholes pay a sum in the billions in lobbying to make sure workers are always available to them on the cheap, with the least amount of protection against exploitation. They wouldn’t try to so hard to put down strikes, higher wages, unions, less working hours, job security, etc. They wouldn’t care as much because a machine would be way cheaper and never complains.
Our technology has to progress and imporve way more to make it possible. Progress that’s based on research, trial and error, investments, talent and raising talent and skill, and all kinds of things that cut down on immediate profits. Basically the antithesis to tgw current economical model that all those fucks are horny for.
To me this is the same as if in the middle ages a king was like “just kill all the peasants and make the wizards summon fully obedient servants to do the necessary work”. While their wizards are still trying to figure out how to take a rabbit out of a hat.