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> The problem is it's $50,000-$500,000, while the humans are $8 per hour. It depends how active you can keep it. £500k financed over say 10 years at 5% is abo
by IanCal 7y ago
> The problem is it's $50,000-$500,000, while the humans are $8 per hour.
It depends how active you can keep it.
£500k financed over say 10 years at 5% is about £5k/mo, a 25y+ human in the UK working 40h workweeks costs about £1600/mo (bare minimum, assumes no overheads or illnesses just the legal minimum + taxes/etc).
- dehrmann 7y agoAnother thing to consider is specialization and seasonality. If the robot is over-specialized in something seasonal, it'll sit idle most of the year. Laborers, on the other hand, move from farm to farm and crop to crop.