Re:Pizza robot makes 300 pizzas per hour
by thefounder on Tuesday October 01, 2019 @01:58PM
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In the end all the "manual/hand labour" will/should be replaced by robots. Which one are automated first depends by the difficulty of the job and economics. Unfortunately there will always be low skilled and high skilled jobs. We already have low skill jobs in the IT(i.e data entry)
This probably also applies to cognitive jobs.
Maybe, if we're lucky, we'll be left with jobs that require interpersonal skills.
Re:Pizza robot makes 300 pizzas per hour
by webkike on Tuesday October 01, 2019 @01:57PM
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The impact is zero because these pizzas are probably pretty bad tasting and not much cheaper than a typical pie.
Re:Pizza robot makes 300 pizzas per hour
by oldmanpants on Tuesday October 01, 2019 @01:57PM
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crappier pizza, fewer jobs, fewer pizza chefs. boo. The past few years I have been making my own pizzas and think back to when I would eat frozen pizzas and just shake my head.
On the one hand, cheaper means more people can afford it, thus more inclusion.
On the other hand, pizza making is not such a harmful job, comparing to let's say mining in which a robot actually saves lives, to justify substituting hand labor. Is it actually leaving people unemployed?
I guess places where cheap food is sold will continue to sell cheap food, so instead of underpaying someone to do the job, a robot does this, leaving people free to do more intellectually demanding jobs.
I guess the real question is then, how can we reallocate people and give them better, more meaningful jobs and not leave them helpless.
Don't get me wrong. Any form of job is respectable. There is always going to be demand for higher quality versions of the same product, where, hopefully people are not underpaid. I mean better job in comparing to poor working conditions.