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[–] 5 points 1 week ago* (2 children)

I’ll never understand takes like this. You think humans are meant to be shuffling around a warehouse picking and packing orders mindlessly?

I get being annoyed at corporations for greedily trying to save money at the expense of workers, but ultimately, I can’t be that upset over shit jobs going away.

In my view, we have to be focused on how to help The displaced workers which we have historically done a terrible job of. It only becomes more important as we are able to automate more and more tasks that previously required a person. Automation absolutely can be a tide that raises all boats; we just have to demand that it be so. Otherwise, all the benefit will go to the oligarchs instead of the people.

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  • The process is designed around human ability, not what is easiest to implement in a machine.

    Our capabilities are different. I don't mean that humans are biological geared towards working on a warehouse. But that we design warehouses around what humans can do

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  • [–] 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

    No, they aren't saying that "humans are meant to be shuffling around a warehouse picking and packing orders mindlessly."

    The point is that the processes are designed around human operators with specific considerations for the abilities and constraints of an average human. Dropping a robot into a process without updating said process around the abilities and constraints of the robot creates new problems. Humans and robots work in different ways and cannot be substituted 1:1 without creating problems.

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