Re:Amazon rolls out machines that pack orders and replace jobs
by crispyambulance on Monday May 13, 2019 @09:52AM
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That's a simplification.
Amazon warehouses ARE oppressive.
And there's nothing superficially wrong with automating the picking and packing of boxes.
The problems come later, and it's not Amazon's "fault" but rather a much larger problem that eventually we'll all have to deal with: what happens when "enough" people get involuntarily shoved out of the workforce, with vanishingly remote prospects of securing other paying work?
Amazon warehouses ARE oppressive.
And there's nothing superficially wrong with automating the picking and packing of boxes.
The problems come later, and it's not Amazon's "fault" but rather a much larger problem that eventually we'll all have to deal with: what happens when "enough" people get involuntarily shoved out of the workforce, with vanishingly remote prospects of securing other paying work?