Aside from the affordability thing…
Do rich people think we make each others beds? Tuck each other in for the night?
Rich people don't understand us at all.
Submitted 3 weeks ago by sanitation@lemmy.today to workreform@lemmy.world
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WappleFF27@feddit.online 3 weeks ago
IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
we should
raid_dad@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Normalize tucking in the homies and kissing them goodnight.
SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 3 weeks ago
Only if I can get a cup of warm milk and a story as well
ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
They also think that art is about coming up with a great idea, nothing else, that’s why they’re pushing for the prompt machines.
zarkanian@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
They’re confusing utility value with artistic value.
Carl@anarchist.nexus 3 weeks ago
They think homeowners have roommates to get labor from them. The same way they have servants who cook and clean for them. To them, the idea of not being able to afford housing is literally inconceivable. It’s not even on their radar, because they’ve never had to worry about it before. The only reasons they can think that someone would have a roommate is for convenience.
Seleni@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Oh man, my cousin had a classmate that was shocked and confused when she learned that not everyone had, or could afford, a yacht. To her, that was just something everyone had, because they weren’t that expensive.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
and give each other forehead kisses? 👉👈😅
Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Yeah, man. Right after we shave the bread and can and dole it out.
nightofmichelinstars@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
Rich people think roommates are servants
gedfromgont@piefed.ca 3 weeks ago
Omg they were roommates!
wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
If the purpose of a roommate was to make your bed for you, wouldn’t that just make a roommate ouroboros where you each make each other’s beds? After all, you are your roommate’s roommate…
jaaake@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Not in rich world.
In rich world there is a title difference between property owner and roommate. These are not equals, but a superior and subservient class.
A property owner provides housing and charges the roommate money and/or labor for the privilege of living on the property. Why take on a roommate if free labor is available?
Axolotl_cpp@feddit.it 3 weeks ago
Real roomates sleep in the same bed!
KingPorkChop@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
Scenario 1:
- 2 bedroom apartment. $2000 a month.
- I pay $1000 a month.
- Roommate pays $1000 a month.
- Split utilities between us both.
Scenario 2:
- 2 bedroom apartment. $2000 a month.
- I pay $2000 a month.
- I buy bed making robot. $15,000-20,000
- I pay bed making robot subscription. $500+ a month.
- I pay for all utilities
I can see how Scenario 2 will be much better for me. Sign me up.
Side note: That fucking robot better have a handjob mode.
Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I mean, if you like getting handjobs from an Indian dude remotely controlling your robot, sure I guess? Though expect it to do that thing where it looks like it shuts down and then starts up again as it goes through a bunch of Indian dudes who see the request and then quit their job on the spot. Just hope you don’t get one of the ones that punches you first.
KingPorkChop@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
HA!
If I had a robot that was supposed to be AI, but actually run remotely from India, handjob mode would be the least of their concerns.
I’d put a strap-on on it, dress it up like a farmer, I’d dress like a can of tuna fish, I’d cover myself in cottage cheese and roll on the ground in convulsions screaming “FUCK ME WILBER! FUCK YOUR TUNA CAN! FUCK IT GOOD”…
…and that would just be Monday.
Those poor drivers would have PTSD when I’m done with them.
prime_number_314159@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
The handjob mode is only available with a Premium subscription, or ad free in Premium Plus.
MonkeMischief@lemmy.today 3 weeks ago
“Yeah, jobby-bot, keep going…wh… why’d you stop?”
“Gig working all day and getting handies burns a LOT of your energy, even though you never leave the house, and that’s why you need HELLO FRESH. Say anything at all to start your subscription today and mention the code HandyJ20 for 20% off!”
“B…but…”
“Hate a ruined finish? Subscribe to ULTRA PREMIUM PLUS for no ads, plus get pillow talk and therapy mode!”
“:(”
cantstopthesignal@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Pay more to unlock new skins.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
gonna be honest, i really, really liked the 498 square foot studio i had to myself for a couple years in Austin. it barely had a kitchen, but i cooked gourmet meals for myself and it’s honestly the cleanest i’ve ever kept a place. I discovered i make mess to subconsciously mark my territory and hide my property, since growing up my brothers would always steal my shit and my parents would leave us to fight it out since they just wanted kids to do their chores for them.
CalemitousVariantK@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Given the state of AI slop and how rocky the road to automated driving has gone, I think I’ll wait on handjob mode until the lawsuits have all paid out.
BetaBlake@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Wait, were roommates supposed to be making our beds?
Professorozone@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
That’s it! I’m calling my old roommate to tell her what a bitch she was for only making her own bed.
VelvetPinkOtter123@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
This is just weird
I looked it up thinking there had to be more to this that just isn’t pictured here. We’re missing context or something
I can find nothing.
This guy literally thinks people have roommates to make their bed for them?
Even thinking people have roommates to help with chores, instead of bills, why the fuck would he think the main chore we need help with is “making my bed”?
Like I’m going to bring somebody else into my house so they can make my bed for me? My bed? That’s weird as fuck
TwodogsFighting@lemdro.id 3 weeks ago
He thinks maids are housemates.
bitjunkie@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
InFerNo@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
Maybe he thinks house maids is spelled housemates 😄
nickiwest@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Tell me that the only person willing to live with you is your live-in maid without telling me that the only person willing to live with you is your live-in maid.
UnspecificGravity@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
People need roommates because they don’t make enough money to live on their own. He concludes that the reason they don’t have enough money is because they aren’t working hard enough for him because they have to do so many domestic chores. This robot promises to free you from the “profitless” enterprise of doing things that aren’t making money for him.
VelvetPinkOtter123@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I get that, and while that’s super out of touch with pretty much everything, to me, that’s the least weird thing about this
Lets go with his logic and pretend we do need roommates for chores.
Out of all of the chores he thinks I need help with he thinks it’s making my bed? Not dishes, or cleaning, or shopping… making my bed? And not even my own bed, he thinks I have a roommate who comes into my room and makes my bed for me?
He thinks we all have strangers living in our houses to make our beds for us?
Yeah it’s stupid as hell that this man thinks we have roommates as maids instead of people to help pay bills, but it’s even more stupid that he thinks the #1 chore that we would need these people for is bed making. And now that there’s a robot that can make your bed for you, that’s it? That’s the end of roommates?
I don’t need a robot to cook for me or clean for me or anything else? Bed making is the end game?
WTF is wrong with this man. This is all so fucking weird
Atomic@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Maybe he thinks roommates is what poor people call their maids?
Though I’d happily make my potential roommates bed every morning instead of paying rent.
im_fine_sandy@nord.pub 3 weeks ago
I refuse to believe that there’s a bipedal robot that can make my bed, with out ridiculous specific programming.
mirshafie@europe.pub 3 weeks ago
There’s not. These ridiculous things can barely walk or fill a glass of water outside of highly controlled settings.
Emi@ani.social 3 weeks ago
There is, it is just controlled by a human operator. XD
tatterdemalion@programming.dev 3 weeks ago
Is there video evidence of one of these robots making a bed? I don’t even care if it’s fully cherry-picked; I’d be impressed just to see it happen mechanically. Tucking the fitted sheet around the corners is not a simple task.
cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
We don’t use the P work anymore, it’s been replaced with “AI”
bitjunkie@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Does the robot pay the rent?
PhoenixDog@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Why is my roommate making my bed?
group_hug@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Because people exist to be exploited by you. What other value could another person possibly have,?
RagingRobot@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Why isn’t mine?!!!
Rooster326@programming.dev 3 weeks ago
No it costs $20,000. Then costs $400/month for the premium Roommate plan. Also you pay with your private data
bhamlin@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
For that much I better be able to fuck it.
UnspecificGravity@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
Let me translate this through process from rich asshole to regular human:
- People need roommates because they cannot afford to live on their own.
- The reason they cannot afford to live on their own is because they aren’t working enough hours (to make him more money.
- The reason they aren’t working enough hours is because they have to spend too much time engaged in activities that aren’t work.
- A robot frees them of having to do things that aren’t work.
- Thefore a domestic robot will make his workers do more work and achieve their purpose of working and paying all their bills.
hdsrob@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
They just forgot the part where the people that need roommates don’t have money to buy a robot, or pay the subscription for the robot, or the “don’t kill me in my sleep” premium upgrade for said robot subscription.
UnspecificGravity@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
Well you see, if we increase costs to a point where you need to work 100+ hours a week just to survive then you’ll have to buy the robot just to do it.
bathroomconnoisseur@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
I needed that explanation
Mycatiskai@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
He will also make money renting domestic robots to his workers and take the cost off their paychecks while also spying on them at home and selling that data to other companies.
Professorozone@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Thank you. It’s actually quite reasonable when you put it that way.
Frenchgeek@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
Aren’t those types of robots mostly remotely controlled?
CultLeader4Hire@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Yes but you’re not supposed to know that
tatterdemalion@programming.dev 3 weeks ago
No they’re pretty open about it. And that’s why a lot of people think it’s too creepy to try it.
Rooster326@programming.dev 3 weeks ago
AI = Actual Indians
jj4211@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
In most demos, yes. Though they have managed to do things that vaguely seem correct, in very specific tasks in very controlled environments and often showing a behavior you wouldn’t want.
Like for example, they got it trained to pull out a dish rack and put a dish in, and push the rack back in. Then a human pulls out the rack and the robot pushes it back in. Which they like to show as it responding to the environment, but in real life the human wanted to do something with the rack, why would the robot incessantly keeping it from being out be desired?
Another one where it could pick up clothes, so long as the clothes were within a set square meter and the background was solid white.
The remote control is the mechanism to try to train them to work independently, but it is a tall order. To get the relatively more straightforward movement of operating a car, they took millions of miles of data to feed it. These robots are aiming for far more intricate work and have a severe lack of access to training data.
Further, imagine any task that becomes very difficult just by putting on gloves. Congratulations, there’s a task machine learning can’t help with, because they don’t have tactile in the input loop.
partofthevoice@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
Interesting issue regarding the gloves situation. However I might add that gloves are often used for safety whereas a robot might not need that safety. For example, pulling weeds.
Though, I think you’re getting at something subtle. It’s not about tasks which require gloves. It’s about any theoretical task which would become harder if you happened to do it with gloves on. That’s a lot of tasks when you think about it.
Omgpwnies@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
These robots are aiming for far more intricate work and have a severe lack of access to training data.
I’ll bet that all the data being harvested by smart glasses is now going to train those models. Basically it provides a first-person view of someone doing stuff with their hands all day, walking around, talking, etc.
silver_wings_of_morning@feddit.dk 3 weeks ago
Instead of sharing rent with a roommate, people will now not want to save money and actually pay more by purchasing a robot.
🤡🤡🤡🤡
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
hehe i did a funny and moved in with family and then when the house expires i will die
katzimir@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
This looks like bad translation. For many asian languages the words maid and mate look sound quite similar. And the distance from house too room might also just be bad translation. Aaand if you change room mate to house maid the headline makes a LOT more sense…
merc@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
So, someone who is fluent enough in English that they would use a colloquialism like “killed the argument” somehow doesn’t know the difference between “roommate and house maid”?
And, even if you make that swap, who is making a “need a house maid” argument? Is there anybody who argues (with whom?) that they need a house maid because making a bed is too difficult? Yes, a maid might make a bed, but the bigger service they provide is cleaning: laundry, dishes, vacuuming, mopping, dusting, scrubbing the bath / shower, cleaning the toilet. A live-in housekeeper will probably also cook meals and do some childcare too.
A robot might be able to do some of that, but a robot that capable will be tens or hundreds of thousands. You’re not going to save money by switching to a robot.
joyjoy@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
No, the robot killed the “need a maid” argument.
Keilik@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I’m not that old and I can’t stress this enough, when I was a kid if you had a roommate it meant you were gay.
jballs@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Wtf is a “need a roommate” argument?
fodor@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
Who makes their bed, anyway? I cannot think of a reason to do so.
cantaloup@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
That’s not how you spell “maid”, mate.
Janx@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
What a fucking idiot. How out-of-touch can they be!?
nanometer1625@thelemmy.club 3 weeks ago
I’m imagine that guy spraying water in the face of a whimpering man chained to a radiator while yelling “Shut up! Bad roommate!”
drmoodmood@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
What’s even funnier is that the video of the robot making the bed was AI generated. This bed making robot doesn’t even exist, yet guy has to shame people having roommates? :D
DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Rich people understand that the only market for these monstrosities are other rich people.
The “roommate” thing is an attempt to make them more acceptable while they’re still being developed for other purposes. The purposes they will be used for against the poor who will never be able to afford or control one.
We are not the intended user of advanced robots. They’d never hand off such tech to people who could figure out how to turn the robots against them.
WakeUpSmashPots@lemmy.today 2 weeks ago
Wait… Do rich people think we need roommates to… MAKE OUR BEDS??? Are they so delusional they think “well I know the poors can’t afford maids like me, so how does their bed get made? Oh, I see! This is why they need roommates! They get roommates so the roommate will make their bed!”
beejboytyson@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Rich people really do cosplay as poor eh
Funkt4st1c@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Wait, are we sure hes not making fun of the purchaser? Like, “You obviously dont need a roommate to lower expenses if you can afford a robot that makes your bed”? Thus killing the argument?
Am i missing something here? To me, this reads “people lazy, thats why poor” not “roommates exist as glorified trad wives”?
Malica@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
About what I’d expect from people that have to pay for friends
OldChicoAle@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I can’t tell when his first name ends and second name begins.
Darkonion@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
At first I thought that robot was folding a person into that bed.
AviAdi@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
The rich lack the empathy to care that you can’t “afford” something. They think everything is a choice. The homeless chose to be homeless as much as they chose to be rich. Fucking delusional evil people!
Blurntout@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
We are the collection of all of “our” choices.
Even the ones we made before we were born by people we’ll never meet lol
BooBees@fedinsfw.app 3 weeks ago
They genuinely believe their familial history and it being the reason they’re rich or privileged enough to become wealthy is their own doing, that they actively participated in creating that opportunity and they’ll call themselves a rags to riches success story for investing a small inheritance or loan of a million dollars into hundreds of millions, saying it was all grind and sheer willpower.
Kirp123@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Just choose to be born healthy to a rich family. DUH
TrickDacy@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
It’s funny how the most valid part of Christianity, that rich people are the most evil, is the part modern “Christians” reject the most.
Seleni@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Well, very few people like to be told they’re the villain…