Re:Uniqlo cut 90% of staff at one warehouse by replacing the...
by core-questions on Wednesday October 10, 2018 @05:09PM
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It's a good sentiment, but the replacement of fast-food workers with robots won't really open up a whole new field in the same sense. Robotics and AI are wonderful and interesting fields, but honestly, let's not kid ourselves, most people who are flipping burgers probably aren't going to go on to work in the field of building their own replacements.
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Re:Uniqlo cut 90% of staff at one warehouse by replacing the...
by krupan on Wednesday October 10, 2018 @05:14PM
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"the replacement of fast-food workers with robots won't really open up a whole new field in the same sense"
No, it won't look exactly like moving from human computers to machine computers. It won't look exactly like moving from manual farming to tractors and combines. It's hard to imagine what it will look like, but it seems overly pessimistic to just assume that this time automation is going to turn out terribly.
Re:Uniqlo cut 90% of staff at one warehouse by replacing the...
by JoeAltmaier on Wednesday October 10, 2018 @05:30PM
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Just because its been terrible before? The industrial revolution was a time of starvation and death for the families of the displaced.
The issue isn't how to keep people busy. That's not a very worthy goal. In the '50s we dreamed of a society where robots took the yoke from our shoulders and let us live better lives. Now that it's happening, all we can talk about is how to get people back to work!