Techno Job-Killers

[nffc]

Cheaper than slaves

http://60secondstatistics.com/for-manufacturing-and-retail-companies-using-automated-robots-is-cheaper-than-actual-slave-labor-would-be/

[Mackin USA]

I sold all my SLAVES

I'm looking into ROBOTS

[rcjordan]

>cheaper than slaves

Chinese firm halves worker costs by hiring army of robots to sort out 200,000 packages a day

(South China Morning Post) http://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/2086662/chinese-firm-cuts-costs-hiring-army-robots-sort-out-200000

[gm66]

>cheaper than slaves

Chinese firm halves worker costs by hiring army of robots to sort out 200,000 packages a day

(South China Morning Post) http://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/2086662/chinese-firm-cuts-costs-hiring-army-robots-sort-out-200000

I wonder how long it will be before we have anti-robot groups going around sabotaging stuff !

[rcjordan]

I've been expecting a return of the Luddites any time now.  The recent up-welling of populist|anti-science agendas has a strong tinge of techno-revolt in it.

[ergophobe]

I've been expecting a return of the Luddites any time now.  The recent up-welling of populist|anti-science agendas has a strong tinge of techno-revolt in it.

Don't forget, the Luddites were right about everything except the belief that they could succeed in the long run.

I'm reading Grapes of Wrath right now (which is amazing) and the chapter on the the tractor driver resonates so strongly with today. And Steinbeck was right too.

[rcjordan]

There will be an uprising (or three) similar to the Ford Massacre.  This time, the protesters & Luddites will be branded as 'domestic terrorists' and be gunned down by robotic security guards.

[rcjordan]

College Replaces Cafeteria Staff With Machines

http://www.vocativ.com/421260/suny-orange-cafeteria-staff-machines/

[DrCool]

Burger flipping robots. Pretty soon you won't need any humans in a fast food restaurant.

https://thenextweb.com/gadgets/2017/03/09/burger-flipping-robot-could-spell-the-end-of-teen-employment/#.tnw_M51JH7Ct

[Brad]

So they can screw up my order without any human involvement?

[DrCool]

>>So they can screw up my order without any human involvement?

It is the human involvement that usually screws it up. I am looking forward to the machines getting it right. I already like the ordering kiosks at McDonalds. And more and more I am using apps to order ahead of time at places like Chick-fil-A and Five Guys. Very, very rarely have any screw-ups when using those.

[gm66]

They'll always need people to write the software, classic problem, programs that write programs, or programs that can even tell what another program's purpose is.

Maybe they'll feed us burger and fries wihle we sit, chained to a PC, coding away, with an early-model sex-robot giving us blowjobs and the occasional electric shock ;+}

[rcjordan]

Robots Will Transform Fast Food


https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/01/iron-chefs/546581/

Check out the estimated ROI.

[rcjordan]

Robots are being used to shoo away homeless people in San Francisco

Knightscope's business model, according to Popular Science, is to rent the robots to customers for $7 an hour, which is about $3 less than minimum wage in California.

https://qz.com/1154649/a-knightscope-security-robot-is-being-used-to-shoo-away-homeless-people-in-san-francisco/