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Between this and the Mechanical Turk article I read earlier today, I am left thinking about these type of jobs. There is this "chasm" of things that machines s
by xtracto 7y ago
Between this and the Mechanical Turk article I read earlier today, I am left thinking about these type of jobs. There is this "chasm" of things that machines still cannot but that are repetitive and boring for humans, for which the value to human-effort ratio is small.
I foresee that in the following 10 years, we will be seeing more and more of these types of works. Now, the interesting thing about some of these jobs is that they cannot be moved to places where the payment to cost of living ratio can be improved. Some Mechanical Turk tasks could (if the language allowed it) but the Amazon warehouse jobs would be impossible to move.
Unless, Amazon opens a chain of warehouses in Mexico's cities that border the US (Tijuana, Tecate, Mexicali, Sonoyta, Nogales, Cd Juarez, among all the others) and then dispatches the goods from there. That however would need to include a very good import/export deal.
- tachyonbeam 7y ago> I foresee that in the following 10 years, we will be seeing more and more of these types of works. On the other hand, people are hard at work trying to automate these jobs. Amazon would love nothing more than to have a completely robotic warehouse and a fleet of delivery robots that run 24/7.
- WengerPen 7y agoWell, in theory a company like these can create robots that are operated from anywhere in the world. In that case, the operator job may be outsourced as it may be cheaper and less of a hassle than to have a person in X country getting paid more, complaining and going on strike.
- alexgmcm 7y agoIs the North of Mexico that much poorer though? I mean Mexico is quite wealthy compared to the rest of Latin America and the North of Mexico includes many of the wealthier areas. It's not the same building a warehouse in Nuevo Leon as in Chiapas.