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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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New Amazon Machines Can Pack 600 Orders Per Hour, Could Replace Thousands of Jobs
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(Score: 3, Interesting) by Gaaark on Monday May 20 2019, @03:45AM (4 children)
So you lay off all your workers, then what do you do when there is nobody able to buy your stuff?
Wasn't it Ford who paid his workers more so they'd be able to buy his cars...he sold more cars and got richer! Huh...if people have good paying jobs, they can buy your shit and make you richer!
Lay everybody off and no one can buy squat and you get poorer. Huh.
I. just. don't. get. it.
Guess it's time to buy even LESS from Amazon...which isn't anything, lol.
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(Score: 2) by isostatic on Monday May 20 2019, @04:53AM (2 children)
So it's better to have people doing work that can be easily automated?
If you want to be Amish, that's fine. The rest of us want to automate away pointless jobs.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Gaaark on Monday May 20 2019, @03:57PM (1 child)
Sure, but do you have a job for those who were laid off?
If not, you'll have rebellion, starvation...all so one person can get richer, until they find there's no one who can afford to buy their products/services.
So, no jobs, no money, no UBI?
Yeah...that's a future to look forward to.
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(Score: 2) by isostatic on Tuesday May 21 2019, @06:31AM
I do hope they automate my job - given that much of my job is automating my job. I don't want to do menial repetitive work that can be automated.
I trust that Buggy Whip manufacturers are still complaining about their jobs going?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 20 2019, @09:56AM
> Wasn't it Ford ...
That's the popular story that I heard as a kid. But more recently, I read another point of view which said that Ford's assembly line was such boring, demeaning, work that he had to pay more just to get enough employees. The more skilled workers from before the production line mostly quit(?) Not sure which version is true, there may be some truth on both sides of this story?