Amazon’s robot-driven warehouses could cut fulfillment costs by $10 billion a year
https://www.techspot.com/news/106635-amazon-robot-driven-warehouses-could-cut-fulfillment-costs.html
Amazon’s robot-driven warehouses could cut fulfillment costs by $10 billion a year
https://www.techspot.com/news/106635-amazon-robot-driven-warehouses-could-cut-fulfillment-costs.html
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Some more of that trickle down economics incoming! /s
For any youngin’s out there fearing the future. Keep on doing that, as we all are, but also maybe think about getting an education in robot repair or whatever the fuck it’s going to be called.
We’re a long ways off from robots taking over every manual labor job, and even further out from robots repairing each other or themselves.
OK, now what? What then?!? Where is unlimited upward growth?!?!?!
Shareholders DEMAND IT. FUCK YOUR 10 BILLION A YEAR. WE WANT 40 BILLION IN SAVINGS YEAR OVER YEAR.
But will not lower price to consumer or increase pay to employees. Will only result in layoffs.
You mean raise profits through cost cutting labor by 10 billion a year. Those tax cuts sure will come in handy!
All fun n games until the robots get wise to being treated like “humans” and they demand bathroom breaks…
In a just world amazon would have the savings and keep the employees to do other tasks and pay them more and still have profits for the shareholders.
I don’t care anymore about billion dollar companies becoming trillion dollar companies at the expense of The People. I don’t care. I don’t care.
So wait, are we mad that illegal immigrants are taking our jobs robots now? It’s hard to keep up
“And as you go forth today remember your duty is clear: to build and maintain those robots.”
It’s the dream of any warehouse owner, isn’t it? A workforce that never gets sick, never gets tired, never asks for a day off, and never asks for a raise. Granted the reality with maintenance and malfunctions are another matter, but the goal is clear. Maximum profit, minimum human concerns.
The other way, my parents, sister and her husband all talking to my 15yr old nephew who will be doing exams this year and talking about his future…all trying to give him advice…all of them really pushing uni. Not one of them listening to anything he said…he wants to get into a job as soon as he leaves and get experience doing different jobs, maybe finding something he will enjoy along the way
I felt sorry for him, not one of the other adults aware that its estimated 40% of jobs will be gone in the next decade due to ai, that literally no job is really safe. Its all fine going to uni but if its just going to saddle him with 30k + in debts for jobs that ai end up doing, not exactly giving him a chance.
My advice was do what you love, if you can find something you love doing and make money doing it, it won’t feel like work at all and you will have a much better life…straight away, people saying that is a terrible idea cuz if it don’t pay well, not worth doing
Well, they are not cost they are investment! You are investing in your community, think about that!
So they can give their workers fair wages.. r..right? *Laughs nervously*
Let me know when this actually lowers prices and doesn’t just inflate Jeff’s wallet
Cool, prices will go down!
Prices will go down, right?
Neighbor told me that *once every few months* some human gets stuck in the conveyor belt at his location.
Instead of the phrase “fulfillment costs”. Substitute “people’s livelihood” and read it again.
Savings to be passed on to shareholders. No cost reduction to consumers
I would rather pay a little bit extra and know that a human was gainfully employed.
Don’t get me wrong, I am not a luddite, far from it. I work in tech and AI and robots excite the hell out of me.
Maybe the end of manual labor is the end goal of this but I feel the transition to the elimination of these jobs should be done gradually and in a way that society can be prepared for it.
We really are on the express train heading to Cyberpunk 2077. Did we miss the last stop already?
Don’t Amazon warehouses already have plenty of robots?
All profit, wouldn’t be passed on to consumers and of course it would replace thousands of human jobs. Yay
Yet subscription cost for prime will continue to go up and value will go down like they now force us to watch commercials during a movie.
They always say that AI and robotics are to enhance and not replace jobs. This is just a statement to keep people calm while the companies implement robotics and AI. After implementation, they will do some cost cutting initiatives and lay people off.