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0 pointsTade02y ago0 comments

> What do these laid off warehouse pickers do instead?

Whatever they eventually go on doing anyway, considering Amazon reportedly has a crazy turnover rate of 150% per year:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/edwardsegal/2022/10/24/amazon-r...

What value is a job you can't really hold on to for even a year because it's so gruelling?

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A sudden rush of so many similarly situated workers is going to be a very difficult situation.

The robots may be good but the cost of the social upheaval should be factored in to the cost of their operation. Otherwise the rest of us are paying for the externalities of these devices and incentivizing the displacement of workers.

prepend2y ago

Will it be sudden? I expect it will happen over many years with the robot:human ratio starting at 5% and taking a while to get to 95% or whatever the optimal ratio is.

I’m not sure why you think all humans would be fired immediately and replaced.

Most likely is that humans will stay and robots will be mixed in to increase capacity.

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