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Amazon’s demand for warehouse picking and packing is highly seasonal, centered around the American holiday season. I think they do have robots, but it’s still c
by octostone 5y ago
Amazon’s demand for warehouse picking and packing is highly seasonal, centered around the American holiday season. I think they do have robots, but it’s still cheaper to hire seasonal humans rather than have a bunch of expensive robots idle for 8 months of the year.
One of those dystopian facts that makes me feel some kinda way.
- lotsofpulp 5y agoIs it more or less dystopian than fewer humans being needed due to robots being cheaper?
- deelowe 5y agoMaybe more? I believe the issue with the human race reaching the singularity point isn’t the world post singularity, but the transition period leading up to it.
- garden_hermit 5y agoIdeally, robots doing all of our work should be utopian, leaving humans free to pursue other interests. Unfortunately, the current structure of society instead makes this dystopian.
- xtracto 5y agoThat's where we are going with Capitalism. In 500 years when we had improved robotics to the point of being able to do most of human work (excepting maybe knowledge work), it will be cheaper to buy a robot than to hire a human. With more than 20 billion people at that time (the USA could have 850 million ppl), the only way for people to survive will be through hyper-efficient production processes and equalitarian distribution policies.
- cestith 5y ago4 months full usage, 1 month maintenance, 5 months of Amazon Rental Robots.
- philjohn 5y agomodern day Biorobots