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maybe they pity the students who are going to get cold pizza 2 hours late?
by throwawaynay 5y ago
maybe they pity the students who are going to get cold pizza 2 hours late?
- steelframe 5y agoMaybe they should pity the human delivery workers who they are helping to put out of a job?
- throwawaynay 5y agoI don't think anybody is dreaming of being an underpaid delivery worker for ubereats with zero benefits, high risk of accidents, and just overall terrible working conditions when we invented aqueducts who cared about the water delivery workers? those are terrible jobs and they should be automated/replaced
- iso1631 5y agoWe got rid of literally shit jobs with plumbing https://historydaily.org/night-soil-men https://historydaily.org/night-soil-men While I was doing a degree I held two types of jobs over time. One was a shop worker, one was delivering food (pizza one summer, chinese the next) The delivery job was far better than the shop job (I quit the shop job after 2 evenings)
- iso1631 5y agoFour hundred years ago on the planet Earth, workers who felt their livelihood threatened by automation, flung their wooden shoes, called 'sabots' into the machines to stop them. ...Hence the word 'sabotage'.
- mijoharas 5y agoThere was also a large group of textile weavers, who belonged to an organisation named after Nedd Ludd[0], that engaged in this practice of sabotage. Hence the term Luddite. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luddite https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luddite
- inglor_cz 5y agoThe gig economy isn't great either, though. These are tough jobs. The development from human workers to robots mimics what happened in delivery of messages. When I was a kid, people would deliver telegraphs to your door - for a substantial markup. These days, e-mails get delivered to your inbox without any human in the loop, and for free.
- josephcsible 5y agoUntil we're out of this labor shortage, reducing the number of unskilled jobs society needs is a good thing.
- throwawaynay 5y agothere is no labor shortage there is benefits and decent salaries shortage the fact that nobody is volunteering to become a slave doesn't mean there is a labor shortage
- josephcsible 5y agoAccepting this for the sake of argument, what's the harm in getting rid of a job that nobody was willing to work at anyway?
- drewzero1 5y agoWhy not both?
- nkrisc 5y agoYes, pity them, not the robots. And then invoice the company for services rendered clearing the obstructions.