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minus-squarekibiz0r@midwest.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8arrow-down1·edit-214 hours agoI should be cynical about AI and labor displacement, but… Does anyone actually want to wreck their bodies by walking all over a giant warehouse and lifting heavy unwieldy objects? Now the robots will do all of that. We’ll just need some humans to uh… follow them around the warehouse… and move them when they break down. (This is totally different, you see.) And do the original task that glitched it out. And dodge all of the other robots while doing so. And be paid less because we have robots now.
minus-squarenjm1314@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up10·16 hours agoI don’t think it’s the issue of people wanting to do that job as much as people wanting to, you know, afford groceries and rent
minus-squareFishFace@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·14 hours agoI don’t think walking wrecks your body, it’s what we evolved to do for days on end
minus-squareMonkeMischief@lemmy.todaylinkfedilinkarrow-up3·11 hours agoIt’s the “You aren’t allowed to stop and rest and your feet are pounding a ground that is rigid concrete with absolutely zero give” that gets ya. =\
minus-squareSaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·15 hours agoI guess you don’t work in a warehouse, but there is not much manual lifting.
I should be cynical about AI and labor displacement, but…
Does anyone actually want to wreck their bodies by walking all over a giant warehouse and lifting heavy unwieldy objects?
Now the robots will do all of that.
We’ll just need some humans to uh… follow them around the warehouse… and move them when they break down. (This is totally different, you see.)
And do the original task that glitched it out. And dodge all of the other robots while doing so. And be paid less because we have robots now.
I don’t think it’s the issue of people wanting to do that job as much as people wanting to, you know, afford groceries and rent
I don’t think walking wrecks your body, it’s what we evolved to do for days on end
It’s the “You aren’t allowed to stop and rest and your feet are pounding a ground that is rigid concrete with absolutely zero give” that gets ya. =\
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I guess you don’t work in a warehouse, but there is not much manual lifting.