Amazon's humanoid warehouse robots will eventually cost only $3 per hour to operate. That won't calm workers' fears of being replaced

[Lambent55]

They are going to need people to constantly monitor them, and step in when there are issues.

And there will be issues.

 

[CopiousX]

Do you not understand how technology accelerates things as time goes on? This could easily happen in our lifetime just because it wasn't immediate like a sci-fi book doesn't mean it's just a scare tactic.

I'm speaking of a documented pattern of behavior from Jeff bezos breh. He has notoriously ran this same gambit since the book seller days in the 00s.


I recall actually writing college essays in my own computer engineering classes about why it was impractical to implement them in warehouses, with the professor using bezos as a case study. So, I'm speaking from the position of somebody who knows how to program embedded circuits and the systems in those machines by training.

And once again, one of the things they teach you in college is to understand the context of an article before inhaling its contents. It's extremely suspicious, that this topic and article was originally written during multiple labor strikes at Amazon at the height of postcovid low unemployment.

People who heard that and went off to study ai/robotics are in a much more comfortable position rn than the smooth-brained laborers clinging onto manual labor jobs that tear up their bodies

I'd love to take you to the CS , ECE, and IT subreddits right now . Our industries are a bloodbath because we were smart enough to automate ourselves out of a job.






I have my gripes with the manual labor jobs too. But My only concern is that they wear away people's bodies. However , they will not have any issues with unemployment. It will be the office jobs that disappear first as my own industry has shown.

Personally I think we all miscalculated back when we were 18. Ideally we would all have gone into the medical field, but of course hindsight is 20/20

 

[jaydawg08]

And you in that 80%

Nah.. maybe in about 50 years my career will be AI, but they can barely upgrade the system as and we still running on 80-90’s equipment

I’ll be long gone and retired on my 6 figure pension by then

 

[Jazzy B.]

Do you not understand how technology accelerates things as time goes on? This could easily happen in our lifetime just because it wasn't immediate like a sci-fi book doesn't mean it's just a scare tactic.


People who heard that and went off to study ai/robotics are in a much more comfortable position rn than the smooth-brained laborers clinging onto manual labor jobs that tear up their bodies

The system NEEDS SPENDERS.

Robots aint replacing anyone in mass


The elites aren't stupid. High unemployment leads to civil unrest and uprisings unless you decide to get rid of people.


They will NEVER allow robots to replace people in mass. It's a SCARE TACTIC like the other poster said.

 

[Strapped]

Does Amazons warehouses have solar panels on them ?

 

[sayyestothis]

The "get a skill" advice is played out. It should be "get experience brehs". Only experience will save you (experience in something that cant get automated). Even if you have a skill, good luck getting hired in this economy with no experience.

if you have a skill someone needs and desires there will always be work...period. experience helps to get more cash but a skill starts it. Warehouse work isn't a skill...experience at warehouse work isn't a skill...

 

[Sad Bunny]

we were smart enough to automate ourselves out of a job.

So true and it’s scary as hell.

I wish I went into medical. I’m about to get a nursing degree asap. Lmao.

What the hell will the kids do in the future? It’s wild.

 

[Sad Bunny]

They are going to need people to constantly monitor them, and step in when there are issues.

And there will be issues.

But not many ppl And that’s the point

It’s about to be scary in the future

 

[Sad Bunny]

The "get a skill" advice is played out. It should be "get experience brehs". Only experience will save you (experience in something that cant get automated). Even if you have a skill, good luck getting hired in this economy with no experience.

Facts. It’s nasty out here.

 

[the cac mamba]

isn't working in amazon warehouses an awful job, with huge turnover rates?

i know that something's gotta give with this AI shyt, but like, some of these jobs....suck