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Re:Hotels turn to robots and room cleanings every 4 days to ... by nicbou on Thursday December 22, 2022 @04:03AM (#34091282)
I'm concerned about an economy where the different strata never interact with each other. It's all too easy to lose compassion for the people who keep the world running for you if you never see them. If you have a delivery driver brave the elements to bring you food, you should have to face them.

However it's nice to do things on your own sometimes. For example I love McDonalds self-checkout because it speaks my language everywhere on the planet, and gives me all the time I need to prepare my order.

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Re:Hotels turn to robots and room cleanings every 4 days to ... by tartoran on Thursday December 22, 2022 @08:39AM (#34093085)
It is concerning indeed, and what’s more concerning is an economy where tech pushes out most jobs. Where will it lead to? What are non tech people supposed to work?
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Re:Hotels turn to robots and room cleanings every 4 days to ... by nicbou on Thursday December 22, 2022 @09:17AM (#34093463)
On one hand, you can't artificially preserve jobs that are not needed. You can't keep mining coal to protect the coal miners.

On the other, automation concentrates wealth in the pockets of those who finance it. Automated checkout machines do not benefit fast food workers, only investors. What happens when you automate a third or a half of the workforce like that?

I hope that we can share the spoils of all this innovation, because the future will be very bleak otherwise.

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