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Companies will seek more automation and less human workers if the cost of compliance and employing humans reduces profit. Take Amazon for example, if a living
by tmaly 8y ago
Companies will seek more automation and less human workers if the cost of compliance and employing humans reduces profit.
Take Amazon for example, if a living wage bill is passed, what is to say that they do not move towards a 100% robotic workforce in their warehouses in a few years?
- cbHXBY1D 8y agoYou know they are already doing that, right? That is the singular purpose of Amazon Robotics. They think they'll have a fully robotic warehouse workforce in the next ten years.
- tmaly 8y agoThere have been books like The End of Work in 1995 that have talked about this. The big question is, what will become of the majority of the worlds population when this happens on a massive scale?