• automattable@lemmy.world
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    12 hours ago

    I’ll never understand takes like this. You think humans are meant to be shuffling around a warehouse picking and packing orders mindlessly?

    I get being annoyed at corporations for greedily trying to save money at the expense of workers, but ultimately, I can’t be that upset over shit jobs going away.

    In my view, we have to be focused on how to help The displaced workers which we have historically done a terrible job of. It only becomes more important as we are able to automate more and more tasks that previously required a person. Automation absolutely can be a tide that raises all boats; we just have to demand that it be so. Otherwise, all the benefit will go to the oligarchs instead of the people.

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      11 hours ago

      The process is designed around human ability, not what is easiest to implement in a machine.

      Our capabilities are different. I don’t mean that humans are biological geared towards working on a warehouse. But that we design warehouses around what humans can do

    • finalarbiter@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      11 hours ago

      No, they aren’t saying that “humans are meant to be shuffling around a warehouse picking and packing orders mindlessly.”

      The point is that the processes are designed around human operators with specific considerations for the abilities and constraints of an average human. Dropping a robot into a process without updating said process around the abilities and constraints of the_robot_ creates new problems. Humans and robots work in different ways and cannot be substituted 1:1 without creating problems.