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> most of a restaurant's and a coffee shop's labor can be replaced with automated ordering, having the customer collect food themselves when it's ready... Whic

by wazoox 5y ago

> most of a restaurant's and a coffee shop's labor can be replaced with automated ordering, having the customer collect food themselves when it's ready... Which means "extracting free work from the customers", which is basically Marxism 101, "how to extract value from live work". My answer in such a place is to go straight out. I NEVER use the "automatic cashes", thank you very much. > ... using robots to prepare more of the food. they can do lattes with art all by themselves now. Robots are a sham, they're just a scarecrow to force workers into obedience. You'll replace more easily a lawyer with a robot than a toilet cleaner or a cook. Robots are fragile and horribly expensive. Good luck with that. Just friggin' pay the people decent wages, for chrissake.

prepend 5y ago
Robots are better at menial, repetitive tasks. No matter what you pay a cashier, they will never be better than an ATM. Free humans to do menial work. I think it’s pointless to try to improve wages for these low end jobs. Similarly with fruit picking. It pays poorly and is hard and dangerous. The solution isn’t to improve wages, but to automate. Humans shouldn’t be forced to do meaningless jobs.
- birdyrooster 5y ago
  According to the parent commenter Marxism 101 is to treat humans like pitiful cogs that need to do the same shit work over and over and over. I’m a leftist but I think peoples quality of living is much more than a good wage. Automating certain shitty jobs can free up spend for giving other more fulfilling jobs a better wage.
  - prepend 5y ago
    I think the solution to that is to just put robots in place of “pitiful cogs.” I think it’s quite depressing to keep humans in pointless roles. I was once a security guard and it’s terrible work. So boring. The pay was crap. Of course, I would have liked more pay. But I was much happier getting a different, better job, than even doubling my pay.
birdyrooster 5y ago
So you never order anything from e-commerce websites because you have to enter your own order and payment information manually? Sounds like a stupid way to interpret Marxism.
- birdyrooster 5y ago
  Shabbat Marxism

by wazoox 5y ago

prepend 5y ago

Robots are better at menial, repetitive tasks. No matter what you pay a cashier, they will never be better than an ATM. Free humans to do menial work. I think it’s pointless to try to improve wages for these low end jobs. Similarly with fruit picking. It pays poorly and is hard and dangerous. The solution isn’t to improve wages, but to automate. Humans shouldn’t be forced to do meaningless jobs.

birdyrooster 5y ago
According to the parent commenter Marxism 101 is to treat humans like pitiful cogs that need to do the same shit work over and over and over. I’m a leftist but I think peoples quality of living is much more than a good wage. Automating certain shitty jobs can free up spend for giving other more fulfilling jobs a better wage.
- prepend 5y ago
  I think the solution to that is to just put robots in place of “pitiful cogs.” I think it’s quite depressing to keep humans in pointless roles. I was once a security guard and it’s terrible work. So boring. The pay was crap. Of course, I would have liked more pay. But I was much happier getting a different, better job, than even doubling my pay.

birdyrooster 5y ago

So you never order anything from e-commerce websites because you have to enter your own order and payment information manually? Sounds like a stupid way to interpret Marxism.

birdyrooster 5y ago
Shabbat Marxism