Amazon will soon have more robots than humans

[CrazyTrader55]

This should work out pretty well in the long run. (sarcasm)
I really wonder where this world is going to end up.

One other comment: do we really need all of this stuff?

 

[initforme]

This is great news.

 

[CrazyTrader55]

This is great news.

Explain.

 

[OhPleaseJustQuit]

Explain.

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Couldn't care less. I don't use Amazon.


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[initforme]

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Couldn't care less. I don't use Amazon.


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Agreed. Also, most of those jobs pay poverty wages. Anything under $25 per hour os a slap in the face. One cant afford to live on that.

 

[CrazyTrader55]

Agreed. Also, most of those jobs pay poverty wages. Anything under $25 per hour os a slap in the face. One cant afford to live on that.

So $0 and having robots do everything is the better option?

 

[initforme]

So $0 and having robots do everything is the better option?

Automation is destined to hsppen. Human labor is replacable. With the birthrate continuing to go down will match the need for less people needed working.

 

[Paddlefoot]

They need robot trucks also as a human driver drove off a bridge the other day.

 

[initforme]

They need robot trucks also as a human driver drove off a bridge the other day.

Thats being developed as we speak. Truck driving will.become a thing of the past ocvupation wise.

 

[SeaMajor7]

1001001 sos

 

[CrazyTrader55]

Automation is destined to hsppen. Human labor is replacable. With the birthrate continuing to go down will match the need for less people needed working.

OK I get that part of it. But then the next obvious question is, what the hell are these replaced workers going to be doing to earn a living?

 

[initforme]

OK I get that part of it. But then the next obvious question is, what the hell are these replaced workers going to be doing to earn a living?

They will be stuck working on another corporate plantation, earning a pittance.

 

[odanny]

Anyone who has worked in a factory, like I have, has observed more and more automation replacing human capital. The thing with an Amazon warehouse is picking parts from location A and sending them to Location B, can now be performed by an automated system. The obvious benefit of this approach is the machines can run 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, with no breaks, other than perhaps scheduled maintenance, all of which can be planned for.

 

[CrazyTrader55]

They will be stuck working on another corporate plantation, earning a pittance.

Surely rent and insurance and child care costs will go down in order to help them out, right?

 

[22lcidw]

Agreed. Also, most of those jobs pay poverty wages. Anything under $25 per hour os a slap in the face. One cant afford to live on that.

A percentage of this is the size of all the government in our nation and the thousands of taxes, fees, surcharges, monopolies, authorities, etc. So, as they increase that wage for all, the more taxes we will need to service the people.

 

[initforme]

Anyone who has worked in a factory, like I have, has observed more and more automation replacing human capital. The thing with an Amazon warehouse is picking parts from location A and sending them to Location B, can now be performed by an automated system. The obvious benefit of this approach is the machines can run 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, with no breaks, other than perhaps scheduled maintenance, all of which can be planned for.

Inevitable. Just think of all the blue collar jobs that will be fully automated in the near future. Millions and millions.

 

[initforme]

A percentage of this is the size of all the government in our nation and the thousands of taxes, fees, surcharges, monopolies, authorities, etc. So, as they increase that wage for all, the more taxes we will need to service the people.

But, as the birthrate continues its decline, which it will, less people will be in the nation to take care of.

 

[TimFitz]

Thats being developed as we speak. Truck driving will.become a thing of the past ocvupation wise.

There is no doubt about that. I expect that at night interstates will eventually be given over to caravans of electric tractor trailers running in electrically connected caravans controlled by one, or none driver.

 

[22lcidw]

But, as the birthrate continues its decline, which it will, less people will be in the nation to take care of.

This is another reason that we are in slow decline. Women, particularly white women were convinced to not have children, and their careers are so important. In reality, for most the careers are not. When they pass on, there will be little written on their tombstones and few at their funerals.

 

[TimFitz]

Agreed. Also, most of those jobs pay poverty wages. Anything under $25 per hour os a slap in the face. One cant afford to live on that.

Even among the cynical world of warehouse pickers, Amazon has a particularly bad reputation. No one who ever worked for them has a good thing to say about them.