[zeestephen]

[monkeyshine]

“freeing themselves of employees” they mean.

[rhinohunter]

freeing employees up to focus on other things.

You mean like umm … searching thru job listings and umm … learning to code?

[Bayard]

Labor innovation is how capitalism generated the industrial revolution.

Robotic arms for this work seems fine by me. Someone gets a job repairing it, cost of labor goes down, and price becomes more competitive.

[voveo]

When I started my own small companies, I always used automation first rather than hiring a person. The employment laws, payroll and taxes always made employing people a massive burden with little benefit to the company.

[T.B. Yoits]

This is decades-old technology. I'll be impressed when one robotic arm can lob a package across the warehouse to another robotic arm that can catch it without damaging it before lobbing it to another robotic arm that's loading the delivery van.

I'll be even more impressed when a robotic arm can replace components on other robotic arms.

[Theoria]

[Scrambler Bob]

Democrats ordering 10K of them to ‘process’ ballots.

[webheart]

All of human history is driven by laziness. When the first hunters thought it was too hard to run after a water buffalo and drag it down and beat it to death with a rock they figured out how to make clubs. When they got tired of having to club it to death, they figured out how to sharpen sticks. After a while they got tired of all the poking they had to do, they figured out how to tie rocks to the end of their sticks. They still had to run so they figured out ways to throw sticks and later to launch them.

Everything we call progress is the result of trying to do less work.

[grey_whiskers]

[Tired of Taxes]

Well, there go the Amazon warehouse jobs now.

[JimRed]

And freeing Amazon to use fewer workers.