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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    11 months 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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      11 months ago

      According to this podcast on collapse I once heard, not once in human history has a technological breakthrough made humans less productive.

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      11 months 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.