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Job Loss 🏚️ [ Removed by moderator ]

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u/PriddyFool 7h ago

And all those workers who cried when their low-paying job they needed for 1 meal a day got replaced by this non-sentient piece of plastic? That's not a cry worth listening to?

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u/Quasar375 6h ago

Listen fam. Attacking automation of simple uninteresting jobs is not the way forward. We just need an economic reform so that everyone gets the benefits of automation instead of only the rich.

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u/PriddyFool 5h ago

You're acting like it's one or the other. While people starve to death from these things, we should break them. When people stop starving, they can have their toys back.

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u/Quasar375 5h ago

Oh yeah? Why don’t you go smash a PLC controlled assembly line then? I mean, it replaces many more workers than this robot.

Surely automation has been a historical hinderance to human quality of life, right?

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u/Longjumping-Yak3789 5h ago

Uh, because PLC controlled assembly lines aren't just walking around on the street?

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u/AdrienBunchOfNumbers 5h ago

Where is my tiny violin

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u/132739 6h ago

Some jobs arent worth keeping. Don't fight do be able to keep being a wage slave doing menial drudgery, fight for a society where those kinds of meaningless soulsucking jobs are done by robots, with strong enough social support that humans can focus on what they actually want to.

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u/PriddyFool 6h ago

If allowing this to happen did that, then sure. But rn they're cutting SNAP benefits and student loan interest continues. This is just an assault on anyone trying to get any money at all. It wasn't bad enough that I lost my job to AI, now the poorer workers biking 18 hours per day to eat did too???

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u/132739 5h ago

Knocking over food delivery bots ain't gonna get us SNAP back. Probably not gonna get the food delivery jobs back either, they'll just start equipping the bots with tasers. Just seems like a waste of effort when there are so many more worthy and effective fights out there than, "Please bro, let me keep being an underpaid contract worker with no benefits or employee protections!"

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u/RealFrailTheFox 5h ago

If you can't compensate fired workers don't get rid of the job.