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> If Amazon manages to replace all their warehouse staff with robots, then the benefits go to the Amazon shareholders. Which is OK, because the shareholders fun
by srmarm 5y ago
> If Amazon manages to replace all their warehouse staff with robots, then the benefits go to the Amazon shareholders. Which is OK, because the shareholders funded the creation of the robots.
I pretty much agree, but Amazon do a lot of piggybacking on the work of others - so even those hypothetical robot - how much of them did the Amazon shareholders actually fund? And should they bare some of the societal costs of it?
The people ultimately set the rules that capitalism works within - even if it does feel like the power is incredibly unbalanced