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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
by 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 agoAccording 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 agoI 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.