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" ...First they came for the Cucumbers, and I did not speak out— Because I was not a Cucumber ... " -Song of those Tensorflow'd out of their jobs. [Edit: Ch

" ...First they came for the Cucumbers, and I did not speak out— Because I was not a Cucumber ... " -Song of those Tensorflow'd out of their jobs. [Edit: Changed Cucumber sorters to cucumbers to clarify the sarcasm]

dangerlibrary 10y ago
Honestly? Cucumber sorting sounds like a shitty job. Very few people are picketing because humans aren't spending large swaths of their lives churning butter. But the tone of the article is ridiculous. For any reasonable definition of "it works", the system doesn't work yet.
- benten10 10y ago
  It was supposed to be sarcastic. Didn't get the tone right.
- kafkaesq 10y ago
  Cucumber sorting sounds like a shitty job. No one's saying it's a great job. But the point for many of these people is that it's a job. Which they won't easily be able to find a replacement for.
legodt 10y ago
Absolutely disgusting that you compare low-skill workers being replaced with automation to the holocaust.
- coldtea 10y ago
  Feigned or real but out of place moral disgrace is even more shameful.
- GFK_of_xmaspast 10y ago
  Why do you think they're low-skill workers just because they're doing agriculture? From the article "It takes months to learn the system and you can't just hire part-time workers during the busiest period.".
sctb 10y ago
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12400551 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12400551 and marked it off-topic.