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Re:Amazon employees plan ‘online walkout’ to protest treatme... by HideousKojima on Friday April 17, 2020 @02:39PM (#22901630)
In Czech robota means more along the lines of "manual labor" not slavery. It has a connotation of drudgery and tedium though.

Edit: The related word Robotnik (like the villain in Sonic) means something like "serf" though

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Re:Amazon employees plan ‘online walkout’ to protest treatme... by colechristensen on Friday April 17, 2020 @02:45PM (#22901703)
When such words were really in use though, how much was the manual labor a result of choice or freedom of the laborer?
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Re:Amazon employees plan ‘online walkout’ to protest treatme... by HideousKojima on Friday April 17, 2020 @04:34PM (#22902710)
"Robota" is still in regular use in modern Czech. And when R.U.R. was written (1920) the days of serfdom were pretty far in the past for Czechs (abolished in 1848).
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Re:Amazon employees plan ‘online walkout’ to protest treatme... by xyzzyz on Sunday April 19, 2020 @03:53AM (#22914289)
In Polish, robotnik means just a physical laborer, there's no negative connotation at all.
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