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> make them achieve more with less effort via technology and one day replace everything with robots

by ljk 10y ago

eva1984 10y ago
And Trump will stop this, at some point, single day delivery will be banned.
- sethev 10y ago
  It may sound conspiratorial but Trump did say this about Amazon: "Believe me, if I become president, oh do they have problems, they are going to have such problems" [1] We'll see. [1]:https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/nov/18/amazon-jeff-bezos-donald-trump-challenge https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/nov/18/amazon-je...
  - azernik 10y ago
    As far as I understand, that's more a grudge about the Post's critical coverage of Trump than a populist objection to the business model.
    - sethev 10y ago
      Sure - that's a plausible guess. It also didn't seem to bother his base.
    - sdfjkjasdfsd67 10y ago
      Bannon is full of rage towards SV and the tech scene. Largely based on his belief that they're undermining white America: http://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/2/2/14472404/steve-bannon-legal-immigration-problem http://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/2/2/14472404/ste... Trump himself has told foreign born, but now legal citizens, to "get out of his country." He's imploding our relations with long-time allies. It's not hard for me to see Trump not caring that 100k+ jobs are being created if it means they're not going to get him any prestige for making them. He'll undermine Amazon or Google if there's a shot at doing something else over here to create jobs, so long as it makes him look good.
      - gumby 10y ago
        That's pretty scary to read as a GC holding "job creator". I'm also amazed they are saying American workers just can't compete with foreigners.
      - gowld 10y ago
        Amazon, however, is run by a white dude, so it's going to be lower on Bannon's list. > Trump himself has told foreign born, but now legal citizens, to "get out of his country." In the video that circulated yesterday, I think that was a security guard, not Trump himself.
    - bduerst 10y ago
      And at what point does that even matter? I'm being serious. I feel like Trump has trained people to not believe anything he says, until it happens, and then people think he's doing exactly what he said he would do. The president said Amazon is going to have problems.
misja111 10y ago
I think you are raising an interesting issue. Does Amazon, while leading the automation of the retail industry, reduce employment? Or is it a net jobs creator? Considering the growth of its number of employees, it seems to me that currently Amazon seems to increasing employment and not reducing it. Or am I wrong and is for every new Amazon employee at least one employee fired elsewhere?

> make them achieve more with less effort via technology and one day replace everything with robots

by ljk 10y ago

> make them achieve more with less effort via technology and one day replace everything with robots

eva1984 10y ago

And Trump will stop this, at some point, single day delivery will be banned.

sethev 10y ago
It may sound conspiratorial but Trump did say this about Amazon: "Believe me, if I become president, oh do they have problems, they are going to have such problems" [1] We'll see. [1]:https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/nov/18/amazon-jeff-bezos-donald-trump-challenge https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/nov/18/amazon-je...
- azernik 10y ago
  As far as I understand, that's more a grudge about the Post's critical coverage of Trump than a populist objection to the business model.
  - sethev 10y ago
    Sure - that's a plausible guess. It also didn't seem to bother his base.
  - sdfjkjasdfsd67 10y ago
    Bannon is full of rage towards SV and the tech scene. Largely based on his belief that they're undermining white America: http://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/2/2/14472404/steve-bannon-legal-immigration-problem http://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/2/2/14472404/ste... Trump himself has told foreign born, but now legal citizens, to "get out of his country." He's imploding our relations with long-time allies. It's not hard for me to see Trump not caring that 100k+ jobs are being created if it means they're not going to get him any prestige for making them. He'll undermine Amazon or Google if there's a shot at doing something else over here to create jobs, so long as it makes him look good.
    - gumby 10y ago
      That's pretty scary to read as a GC holding "job creator". I'm also amazed they are saying American workers just can't compete with foreigners.
    - gowld 10y ago
      Amazon, however, is run by a white dude, so it's going to be lower on Bannon's list. > Trump himself has told foreign born, but now legal citizens, to "get out of his country." In the video that circulated yesterday, I think that was a security guard, not Trump himself.
  - bduerst 10y ago
    And at what point does that even matter? I'm being serious. I feel like Trump has trained people to not believe anything he says, until it happens, and then people think he's doing exactly what he said he would do. The president said Amazon is going to have problems.

misja111 10y ago

I think you are raising an interesting issue. Does Amazon, while leading the automation of the retail industry, reduce employment? Or is it a net jobs creator? Considering the growth of its number of employees, it seems to me that currently Amazon seems to increasing employment and not reducing it. Or am I wrong and is for every new Amazon employee at least one employee fired elsewhere?