• Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works
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    7 hours ago

    Don’t worry, everyone. 95% of our jobs will be replaced with robots.

    And I know what you’re thinking. Yes, the money will rightly be given to the billionaires. See, nothing to worry about. Nothing. So glad Trump is doing nothing but deregulation LLM’s and attacking workers rights.

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    17 hours ago

    Warehouse jobs are garbage and should be automated. Amazon should also be nationalized. The problem isn’t automation, it is, as always, capitalism.

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    17 hours ago

    So… there goes Amazon’s argument that they should ever get preferential tax treatment due to all the jobs they supposedly create

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      16 hours ago

      What? No silly. They made those arguments and won those cases so they get preferential taxes for the next 300 years. Regardless of the changing needs of the country or the economy.

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    13 hours ago

    Those 600,000 workers should quit right fucking now. See how long Amazon lasts before bezos sets all those robots up himself.

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    14 hours ago

    I uninstalled my Amazon app a month ago, and I haven’t missed it. It started as an experiment to see if I can live without it. Seems I can.

    #amazon

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    19 hours ago

    When companies stop employing people en masse to replace them with robots or AI or similar, who will be left with the money to buy their products?

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      They will cater more and more to each other until they turn inward and start hoarding and rearranging resources into their compartmentalized cocoons while they attempt to transform their empires into launch pads that will let them escape the planet like some sort of fungal spore to infect and consume another world.
      They will fail to develop a way to sustain humans off world and will leave behind a polluted hellscape of toxic nonsense and dysfunction.

      I hope someone still has the resources to pour concrete over the entrances of these billionaire fallout shelters when the front finally falls off the whole yacht.

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    14 hours ago

    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.