Amazon is experimenting with humanoid robots for warehouse work.
The dumbest timeline is indeed the one we have – living in times of nearly boundless plenty yet letting people starve and go homeless.
Amazon’s not doing this to enrich and improve society. They’re doing it to enrich and improve themselves. Fighting to keep bad jobs is what we do when the entire economic system has entirely given up on serving the needs of the public rather than private wealth.
It’s not that we should force Amazon to not use robots to replace jobs. It’s that we should force Amazon to contribute at least as much value to their communities as they extract, through any means possible. Unfortunately, in this idiot society, we think “being an employer” is the only reasonable way a company can contribute to its community.
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I’d really love to see some better propositions for quantifying value that’s better than straight up corporate profit. I’m with you a 100%, just looking for the path to get there.
Imo it’s not so much that corporate profit is the problem, it’s how corporate profit is allowed to happen. Make stock buybacks illegal again, revert tax law to a point where dividends are a better way to profit than endlessly increasing share price, and force all businesses to be some form of business cooperative.
It’s not a perfect answer, I don’t think a perfect one actually exists, but it plugs most of the biggest holes we have right now