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Why do people still work for Amazon? There's so many horror stories. If less people went to work for them, shit would improve.
In theory of course
Of course they are. Do you know how expensive it is to repair or replace a broken robot? And how cheap and easy it is to replace a dead worker? /polemic >

And have you seen these robots? I mean...if I could afford one I'd have one... >

Buy a roomba, a bottle-jack, and a roll of duct tape.  Make your own. >

Robots are way more expensive to replace. >

And they don't complain, or take breaks, holidays etc.
Occasionally a part will wear out or break, that's it... For menial tasks, they're just the better solution. >

And it doesn't feel pity, remorse, or fear. It absolutely won't stop until your small item is in a large package. >

I'm an engineer (not for amazon) but it would seem I've hedged my bets nicely, workers aren't needed, but I fix the replacements... >

Until they become sentient and kill you and take your wife to breed her and produce humans to serve them. Yeah, it gets that deep. >

Can I have some of whatever it is you've been smoking, sounds amazing. >

Yeah, it’s a joint called “fk with shit you’ll regret”. Lots of folks smoked it before: dude that invented 401k, etc. >

It's Amazon. Warehouse workers are treated like dirt. However people still admire how Bezos is so successful. >

Luckily most people are well beyond admiring the worlds best bloodsucking leaches >

I wouldn't say most people :( I wish that were the case >

Of humans and robots, we only fear one of them uprising. >

Man not gonna lie, this comment can be interpreted so many ways.
I love it as it's truelly deep yet nuance. >

I honestly wouldn't be surprised. >

i thought this was known for a while... they don't let their employees pee and they are forced to work during tornadoes >

I heard the only birthday celebrations are for the robots. No more human celebrating. >

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Two Amazon workers, who are members of the GMB, said the robots in the warehouse "Are treated better than us".
Workers at the Coventry warehouse scan stock which is sent out to Amazon fulfilment centres, to be shipped to consumers.
Amazon has been battling against unionisation in the US. More than half of the 8,000 workers at a warehouse on Staten Island, New York, voted to join the Amazon Labor Union which has now been officially certified.


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If the robots break Amazon has to pay to replace them >

Of course they are. Robots are expensive. >

The Ludites have a solution for this… >

That's basically the new normal for almost every business doing repetitive tasks. >

There's no reason for humans to be doing that kind of thing tbh.  We're much better at hunting and running >

They are. >

Robots need to be depreciated before they can be replaced. Workers not. >

Alert the accountants - they are capital assets so there are likely a bunch of tax/accounting maneuvers that add value to their use. >

So do you think we are going to create a society where everything is taken care of robots and we are left to philosophical, artistic, and scientific pursuits or will the wealthy hord everything and tell everyone to pull themselves up by their bootstraps? >

even with UBI, the issue is making sure everybody does something productive instead of just sitting on their asses Wall-E style >

That's the thing.  There will be no need to keep people productive.  It will take a huge cultural shift for sure.  A focus more on self improvement, experiencing new things, and sharing those experiences.
What's worse?  Some of the population becoming super lazy or making all the population do pointless menial labor because that's what we've always done to keep production up?