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> The significant investment in robotics showcases Amazon’s commitment to innovation in its supply chain and highlights the company’s belief in the synergistic
by okasaki 3y ago
> The significant investment in robotics showcases Amazon’s commitment to innovation in its supply chain and highlights the company’s belief in the synergistic potential of human-robot collaboration. Despite the massive scale of automation, Amazon emphasizes that deploying robots has led to the creation of new skilled job categories at the company, reflecting a broader industry trend toward the integration of advanced technologies with human workforces.
An article about robots that's written by a robot. It's robots all the way down.
- smcin 3y agoWho will inform the turtles they are no longer needed?
- tacocataco 3y agoTrust me, they'll know.
- RowanH 3y ago> has led to the creation of new skilled job categories at the company. "While systematically removing the unskilled job categories at the company" The robot missed out that sentence for some reason.
- raverbashing 3y agoWell given the complaints about work conditions it would be good if humans were given less dangerous jobs
- RowanH 3y agoNot saying whether it’s good or bad, just the obvious bit left out. Does really show that UBI discussion needs to be had sooner rather than later …
- rickydroll 3y agoI'm coming to think that the wages that would have been paid to people who robots have replaced should now go into a sovereign fund to help fund UBI.
- lotsoweiners 3y agoHaha that is funny.
- ta1243 3y agoDon't forget all the robots reading it. It seems the end goal of the advertising industry -- robots doing, robots writing, robots reading. Like cockroaches and twinkies, one of the few things to survive nuclear war.
- rickydroll 3y agoBut will robots survive a nuclear war's EMP?
- moffkalast 3y agoMilitary drones have to be covered in a Farraday cage layer to prevent jamming, so that would double as nuclear EMP protection. Finding a place to charge afterwards might be tricky though...
- exe34 3y agoHave you read Accelerando by Charlie stross? He talks about a Vile Offspring that's basically what you said!
- tacocataco 3y agoMaybe robots should pay taxes like humans since they are taking the jobs and the tax base that goes along with them.
- exe34 3y agoOr you could tax the companies on revenue, the way employees are.
- hnburnsy 3y agoSure, if you enjoy higher prices or lower wages
- LadyCailin 3y agoThat’s too hard to do. What is “a robot” and “a job?” Replacing workers is easy enough to calculate that with, but what if I start a brand new factory that only ever used robots? The solution is wealth tax and UBI. Get rid of regular income tax, then do a progressive wealth tax, which is enough to pay for a progressive UBI. This way, it’s no problem if you lay off all your workers to replace them with robots. In fact that’s great! Because now these people have a UBI, which frees them up to go find (or make) other work. Meanwhile the factory owner’s taxes should be going up, since his wealth is going up since he doesn’t have to pay all the workers, unless he’s still spending that money to further invest in things, which is also great. The biggest problem really is people just hoarding wealth. If they are spending or investing it, then that’s not a problem.
- SoftTalker 3y agoVery few people hoard wealth. You imagine wealthy people like Scrooge McDuck with a room full of gold coins. It's almost always invested in stocks which helps companies grow or in bonds which helps finance public works.
- foobarbaz321 3y ago[dead]
- berniedurfee 3y agoWritten by a robot that was written by Amazon and runs in AWS. Vertical integration indeed!