This is absolutely coming. At my last employer, we had autonomous forklifts that were handling more and more of our material. I had a few with my old manager last Friday and he said the next major capital investment in the plant would be a fully automated warehouse.
The way the place is struggling to fill vacancies at this time, I doubt it would cause any layoffs, at least until they can automate a few more things.
We also discussed the possibility of me coming back in a different role than my last one. I’m...... intrigued.
This is economics 101. You are not going to get higher min wages. You are going to get replaced by a kiosk or a robot.
Last edited by cheby; 09-20-2021 at 09:29 PM.
If they combine robot waiters with sex robots, it’ll be a very popular place to go….
Amazon is presumably dumping huge amounts of time, money and effort into exactly this.
When they get the first one online they're going to destroy the concept of blue collar work. There are a bunch of moderately well-paying jobs that are being automated out of existence. People assume because robots didn't get rid of all humans at Ford/GM/etc that the whole "they just create new, different jobs" situation is the norm. They're going to be in for a rude awakening sooner than later.
If we have to march off into the next world, let us walk there on the bodies of our enemies.