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Fears of employee displacement as Amazon brings robots into warehouses (www.theguardian.com)

submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Amazon is experimenting with humanoid robots for warehouse work.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

Only if we continue to be dumbasses

We need to take universal basic income more seriously as a future policy

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

In my experience there are two groups of people who don't take UBI seriously.

Rich boomers.
People (mostly but not all, conservatives) who consume media paid for and engineered by rich boomers.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

If you’ve been paying attention to society over the last 5-10-15-50 years you’ll see precisely that this concept will never be implemented. It would take catastrophe and the destruction of current society.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

I share your pessimism tbh