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Hilarious. You really think a humanoid robots time is so valueless that it would be wasted on going door to door with packages? Why? You would obviously use the

Hilarious. You really think a humanoid robots time is so valueless that it would be wasted on going door to door with packages? Why? You would obviously use them where their economic activity is the most valuable. This is peak human narcissism. It won't be robots doing the jobs humans do not want to. It will be humans doing the jobs, that are so valueless that robots won't bother with them. >Human Amazon drivers currently are around $40k per year to rent. Now. Yes, NOW. Consider what will happen to the unskilled labor market when there are humanoid robots competing for these jobs. Going from place A to place B with a package is of so incredibly low economic value that it will always be cheaper for a human to do than for a robot. Consider this. A robot at its lowest will cost around 10k with 2k to 5k yearly maintenance. Human labor at its lowest is around 3 dollars a day. Robot labor will never be cheaper than human labor. In other words. A human consumes 2k kilo calories a day. How many calories does it take to produce, charge and maintain a robot? Without a doubt many orders of magnitude more. To think that robots will ever be cheaper than humans is such a warped western perspective. You are just neglecting how cheap labor is around the world.

delichon 2y ago
> You are just neglecting how cheap labor is around the world You can't globally arbitrage local labor, unless the labor is performed remotely, which the upcoming humanoid bots won't require much of in the delivery role.
- constantcrying 2y ago
  None of my argument has to do with global arbitrage. Local competition with robot labor is enough to drive wages to near zero. Robot labor will first overtake where the greatest economic gain is. All human labor below that skill level will now be pushed down to lower levels. Robot labor costs will be a hard upper limit for human wages for unskilled labor. There will be like 40% of the population in direct competition with robots. Human wages will drop hard and very fast. Thankfully things like package delivery are always cheaper for humans. Again minimum labor cost for humans is like 5 dollars a day. Robots can not compete with that, so the easiest unskilled jobs will remain human.

delichon 2y ago

> You are just neglecting how cheap labor is around the world You can't globally arbitrage local labor, unless the labor is performed remotely, which the upcoming humanoid bots won't require much of in the delivery role.

constantcrying 2y ago
None of my argument has to do with global arbitrage. Local competition with robot labor is enough to drive wages to near zero. Robot labor will first overtake where the greatest economic gain is. All human labor below that skill level will now be pushed down to lower levels. Robot labor costs will be a hard upper limit for human wages for unskilled labor. There will be like 40% of the population in direct competition with robots. Human wages will drop hard and very fast. Thankfully things like package delivery are always cheaper for humans. Again minimum labor cost for humans is like 5 dollars a day. Robots can not compete with that, so the easiest unskilled jobs will remain human.