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Re:VR robots are building railways in Japan by urthor on Sunday December 11, 2022 @04:00PM (#33947435)
It's ingenious, highly effective, and exactly what we should do.

Ex-McKinsey executives will kybosh it and hire minimum wage workers to avoid shelling out for the CapEx.

It's the American way.

Re:VR robots are building railways in Japan by _Adam on Sunday December 11, 2022 @04:10PM (#33947556)
A few years ago that would be true. These days, minimum wage workers are getting harder to find.

But that's only if the search is constrained to immediate locality. The "great" thing about this concept is that we can hire minimum wage workers overseas to control robots in America (latency be damned).

Re:VR robots are building railways in Japan by TheDudeMan on Sunday December 11, 2022 @06:11PM (#33948668)
Once does not simply damn latency. Latency damns you.
Re:VR robots are building railways in Japan by T-A on Sunday December 11, 2022 @07:22PM (#33949234)
Re:VR robots are building railways in Japan by urthor on Sunday December 11, 2022 @06:39PM (#33948895)
If you read the national political news.

Hundreds of politicians and government officials are working feverishly to "fix" this.

For them, technological progress is the enemy because it disrupts the social hierarchy.

We must have minimum wage workers, to maintain the social hierarchy.