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Amazon's humanoid warehouse robots will eventually cost only $3 per hour to operate. That won't calm workers' fears of being replaced. - Digit is a humanoid bipedal robot from Agility Robotics. (www.businessinsider.com)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago (2 children)

I mean replacing jobs that are basically just being a humanoid robot is actually not a bad thing...

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

It wouldn't be if the generation of jobs that aren't just being a humanoid robot was 1:1 with their replacement. Instead, we're just treading the edge of forcing people out of the workforce with nothing for them to go to that's in the forced-out's skillset. Where's the training-up, as opposed to the forcing-out?

Further, are we really just gonna take Amazon at their word regarding "oh, they're meant to work collaboratively with a human workforce, not replace them!" Cause I sure as shit don't.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

You simply don't need so many people when you replace humanoid robots with actual robots...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

And what's the recompense for the ones who "aren't needed"? "Wish you luck, get out"? They're just supposed to make a not-nearly-enough unemployment check stretch because some shitbag C-suite deemed them unnecessary and/or not worth paying? The seemingly naively-optimistic IFLS angle on robotics is going to only exacerbate the "motherfuckers aren't hiring" crisis we're still living through.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I mean thats what happened when industry 2.0 and 3.0 happened as well. Now we are at 4.0 and need less people and higher skills.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

But what I'm saying is what we're living now is unsustainable without HEAVY changes to the way our society operates-- and you seem to just want to exacerbate that already existing crisis, and introduce us to a brand new one. Not all of us-- as a matter of fact, precious few of us-- have the capabilities, either liquid resource or intangible resource-wise, to actually upskill in the West.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Less people less unsustainablity.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

How positively monstrous.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

No. Im just telling the truth.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago

yeah you are

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I get what you mean, but what are millions of people going to do for work instead?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

There are enough other places that need workers...