Why is everyone here so negative about this? This is pretty cool!
Technological unemployment is only going to get worse without a plan to support the people being replaced by automation. They can’t just ‘get another job’. As long as the benefits of this stuff only goes to shareholders, it can fuck off.
It’s called structural change. And I don’t see why it’s a bad thing. We would still be plowing our fields with ox and cart if we had denied every technological unemployment in the past.
Delivery jobs are the most ungrateful and exhausting low-paying jobs. And you want humans to keep doing them for the rest of mankind’s future? Pretty grim future in my opinion.
No. I don’t want them to starve when they get replaced by robots, which is the current plan, apparently.
Well if you’re ignorant enough to think things will stay the same for the rest of your life while digitalization is ramping up… With all respect, who’s at fault here?! Just diversify and find different avenues.
Would be cool, if it wasn’t so hard to find a job already. Now androids are going to take the rest. If I would be able to buy an android for doing house chores then yes it would be cool
There is always going to be jobs. Else, there is nobody who’s buying products from Amazon. It’s a self-regulating system. New jobs will be created when old ones die out. Just think of the millions of workers doing manual sewing that got replaced by mechanical sewing machines. Or all the farmers and oxes that got replaced by tractors.
There will always be some jobs. That’s no guarantee that there will be enough jobs for everyone to live modest lives on.
Some will be left behind. It’s not good. But if you look at the course of our past 10.000 years history, it has always meant progress and a better quality of life for the majority.
They are trying to solve last-mile delivery problem
They are wasting tax payer dollars
Tax payer dollars? Also, why waste? It might pay off with more efficient and cost effective delivery. R&D is never a waste. You can’t tell if something will work if you haven’t tried.