Posted on 02/06/2017 6:19:56 AM PST by Enlightened1
If you’re a robot stealing somebody’s job, it’s best to stay hidden.
That’s what Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos appears to be thinking, as his Seattle-based web giant has contemplated a two-story, automated grocery store in which a staff of robots on the floor upstairs grabs and bags items for shoppers below.
The ground level of the futuristic prototype — a supermarket-sized version of its recently unveiled “Amazon Go” convenience store, with a bigger layout that could span anywhere between 10,000 and 40,000 square feet — would be devoted to goods that shoppers typically like to touch, sources briefed on the plans told The Post.
Those could include as many as 4,000 items, spanning fresh fruits and vegetables, eggs, meats and cheeses, and grab-it-and-go stuff like beer and wine, the sources said. Pharmacies might also might spring up at some of the high-tech locations, as Amazon looks to break into the lucrative sector, insiders said.
But for many, the most striking feature of the bigger stores is that they could operate with as few as three employees at a time. Sources said the plans call for staff to max out at 10 workers per location during any given shift.
“Amazon will utilize technology to minimize labor,” a source close to the situation told The Post.
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Honestly, I’d pay more to see people working
Honestly, I’d pay more to see people working
I wish they’d concentrate on the DMV, and other government offices.
On our way towards something of a Star Trek future. The earth will be in the stewardship of a small population of highly-educated technicians, laboring periodically only to ensure the machines stay running. All their basic needs met, they enjoy mostly a life of leisure and scholarly pursuit.
The other 90% of the population; illiterate, unskilled peasants mired in poverty and fueled by religious fundamentalism, there will be no use for. They will have nothing to contribute except for mouths that need to be fed. They will be seen as an obstacle to progress and dealt with as such.
We will eventually get to this future but it's not going to be pretty.
Would you pay more to eat grain harvested by armies of men wielding scythes or a single man driving a combine?
This has been going on for years. There's a Pirelli tire plant in Rome, Georgia that takes a total of 3 workers for each entire tire production line. One to load raw materials at the front end, one to make sure that the spools of belting and cord materials don't run out, and one to take the completed tires off the other end.
Better technology has always resulted in better employment, but maybe that’s going to change.
Imagine shopping this way...
“I want some butter, eggs, a bottle of wine, and some bread.”
We have 30 varieties of butter ‘products’. Do you want a dozen eggs, half a dozen, a crate. Do you want small, medium, or large? We have 300 various bottles of wine. Please specify the exact brand and name. We have white bread, wheat bread, whole wheat bread, low-gluten bread, blah,blah,blah,blah.
Yeah, this will really work.
I see, he’s against Trump’s immigration policy, but he doesn’t want to provide jobs for them.
I don't care if he's married or not.
The Elite may get a Star Trek future. The unwashed masses will get Chicago’s gang world.
When no humans have jobs, who will earn the money to buy the products made by robots?
I want to pick my own produce. I want to inspect for dented cans. I want to chose meat with less bones and more marbling. And I want to get the freshest dairy and look at expiration dates.
The highly-paid technicians who maintain the robots, design the robots, build the robots and teach others the same.
Given mankind's history, I see our future devolving to more of a Dredd or Elysium result.
In 97 I started working for Donaldsons making air filters, I was processing around 3,000 feet of media a shift. Fast forward 10 years, my buddy Dan and I were doing around 30,000 feet a shift. We are in the middle of huge changes, not unlike that in the 18th century.
Are we living on the hinge of history?If so what does it mean?
http://www.therightreasons.net/index.php?/topic/38143-are-we-living-on-the-hinge-of-history/?hl=%20hinge%20%20history
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My grandmother was born in 1865 died in 1958. When she was born the way most people lived had not changed in any fundamental way in 300-400(?) years, when she died the changes had started. Since then, for better or worse the world she knew is a thing of the far distant past. 30 years ago (say) nickydog and I could not have had the conversations we have had She being in Co. and I in Mn., the technology while it existed, was just new born, today it has changed...well everything. 30 years ago if you were a person who was really into politics you subscribed to Newsweek or Time or if you really had no life US News and World Report. On the Left The Nation, The Village Voice, on the right National Review, Human Events, today, the sources available to us the great unwashed are greater than The MSM had in 1982.
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These factory/warehouse jobs are going away. What will replace them? Not a clue and I doubt anyone else does either. Some of these changes will be for the better, some for the worse. But They Are Happening And People Better Deal With It.
I would also add as someone who spent his working life on the factory floor, these jobs are not all that great.
Then you can shop at the corner market and pay a little bit more.
“When no humans have jobs, who will earn the money to buy the products made by robots?”
They’ll just tax the evil rich, duh. Then everything will be free and workers can concentrate on being artists and writers.
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