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The machines, which were being tested in a few warehouses in recent years, are able to scan goods coming down a conveyor belt and put them in custom-built boxes a few seconds later.
The machines can pack up boxes at a rate of 600 to 700 per hour, or four to five times as fast as human workers, according to Reuters, which first reported the development.
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(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 19 2019, @08:52PM (6 children)
it's not off topic.
the whole point of the God State Allowance/UBI is b/c automation will take so many jobs that civ will collapse if something is not done. good thing Young Changly has hardcoded our allowance to 1000 a month so no matter how much these supranational douches save, and the international criminal banksters running the nations of the world inflate/steal, we still only get our set $ amount. yay! also, they say "no strings attached", but once you sign over your last little bit of freedom you can bet your bottom UBICredit that they add onerous strings later.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 19 2019, @09:03PM (2 children)
Let me show you how this system will fail.
Take section 8 housing. Good deal for those who can get into it. ~500-1000 a month for housing depending on where you live.
Lets say for the area they make it 500 dollars for housing. Well lets say I do not want to deal with you. I set my price to be 550 a month. Not terribly much more. But I can tell you from first hand experience the people who use section 8 do not come off the extra 50.
What does that mean? Everyone will raise their prices. You will create an inflation blip and the world will move on from it. You will also create a recession from it. No getting around it. Oh it will be short term. But it will do it. Then after it is all said and done you have created a tax on people who save and a new tax on everyone when they buy something. But at least everyone gets 1000 dollars. Big deal. It would end up being a big do nothing and create jobs that are functionally useless.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Bobs on Sunday May 19 2019, @09:25PM (1 child)
Nice theoretical, ivory tower argument.
In the real world, just about anyplace you can get Section-8 housing there is already a waiting-list months long: demand far outstrips supply.
Everybody offering Section-8 is charging the max the government allows, and
Offering a UBI will have effectively zero impact on the availability or price of section-8 housing.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 20 2019, @12:31AM
I use section 8 as an example of something *like* UBI.
Depending on the state you live in section 8 is either pre-approved places or a stipend and any place is possible (with in price ranges). There are 2 types of landlords. The let it rot landlords. They *love* section 8. Easy to flip. The the others as investment property owners. They do everything they can to keep people out like that. They usually destroy the place. They have no skin in the game. (source: I know many landlords).
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 20 2019, @03:07AM (2 children)
Good God!!! Won't this meme ever die? Look, the State is not going to give you an allowance merely because you exist. This is not how it has ever worked in the past. And it almost certainly won't work that way any time in the future. Sorry if this bursts your bubble, but it's the truth. And civilization is not going to collapse either if you and your family and friends do not get a UBI. The way excess population has typically been taken care of in the past is by wars. Or, sometimes those in power set up gruesome games of survival of the fittest to entertain and amuse themselves and the masses. Think gladiators, for example. Think Hunger Games. Those are the "onerous strings" that are most likely to be added later. Yes, it will get ugly. Just so you know.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 20 2019, @02:54PM
Or the excess population rises up, a certain number die in that revolt, and we find out if the masters will lose by sheer numbers.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 20 2019, @09:15PM
it was meant as tongue in cheek but "alrighty then".