Amazon hopes to replace 600,000 US workers with robots, according to leaked documents

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• morgan_423@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Amazon has been such a terrible employer for so long that they’re almost forced to do this, any other concerns aside.

  They’ve burned and churned such a large percentage of the American population that would ever potentially work for them, that they are legitimately going to run out of people to hire. Automation is going to be their only possible way of getting their grunt work done.

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• taiyang@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  This would be a good thing in the timeline where governments actually gave a shit and we had universal basic income for everyone. No human should have to slave away for 8+ hours a day just to survive when most work can be automated.

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  • Azzu@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    UBI will only come after workers are automated away, not before. We almost never had progress for progress’ sake, only out of necessity.

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• panda_abyss@lemmy.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  They have always wanted to replace all their workers with robots.

  It’s why nobody should have capitulated and gave them tax cuts for warehouses and fulfillment centers.

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• surph_ninja@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Nationalize Amazon.

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• vapeloki@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Let me get this straight:

  • everybody wants free same day logistics
  • nobody want to work under those conditions
  • if we deliagte inhumane jobs to robots, everybody is mad

  Where is the logic?

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  • Taldan@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Exactly. Automation will be replacing jobs. It’s an economic fact. Instead of fighting it, we need to be focusing on making an automated future equitable for as many people as possible

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    • vapeloki@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Yes! And the only thing in our way is fucking capitalism!

      A world, where no living being has to do work in such bad conditions, as machines can do those jobs is possible. Unconditional basic income. Unconditional basic income!

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• ToiletFlushShowerScream@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  And when you see an Amazon box on your doorstep today, know you directly paid for this.

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• recentSlinky@lemmy.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  As they actively destroy any chance of progress in computing? Probably even degressing it by supporting the AI bubble? Good luck with having robots that can do more than 5% of the basics of what an average human can do :)

  Sure it’ll be able to do it very “efficiently”, but that efficiency is extremely relative at best, and sacrifices way more in the background making it less efficient overall.

  Too bad the people running these companies can’t see beyond their next quarterly numbers to know this, or know how business, technology, the economy, or how humans work.

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  • AA5B@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    It 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

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• AntiBullyRanger@ani.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I was JUST making fun of these fascists, and they keep proving me correct🤣

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