Amazon Plans to Replace More Than Half a Million Jobs With Robots

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Will the billionaires then look to get rid of poor people when they no longer have a use for them?

What do you think they are doing right now with antivax campaign?

Guessing that's a small start...

[Anonymous]

Entirely predictable, and perfectly appropriate. Efficiency = productivity = increased profits, which is why businesses exist. They provide employment only incidentally and only insofar as employees are required for the business to operate. When employees become more expensive than alternatives, the alternatives will replace the employees. Employees can and do price themselves out of jobs when they demand wages which cost the employer more than alternatives.

Employees who cannot be replaced by alternatives like AI or robots have job security. Employees who can be replaced by technology need to either become irreplaceable through the acquisition of irreplaceable skills, or by costing less than the replacement technologies.

This has been true ever since the beginning of the industrial revolution, it's nothing new.

[Anonymous]

OP: Amazon currently employs 1.2m workers. Would you rather have them put 500k out of work by installing robots, or put 1.2m out of work by going out of business when someone else who is better at automation competes with them and is able to deliver the same products less expensively?

As noted above, this concern goes back to the start of the industrial revolution and, yet, there has been no mass unemployment. Jobs have changed and will continue to change.

[Anonymous]

Innovate or die.

[Anonymous]

The future is now.
A.I. and A.I. controlled bots will replace probably 50% of all jobs in the next decade if advancements continue at the same rate.

[Anonymous]

Just like machinery replaced the need for large amounts of farm and ranch labor, and assembly lines replaced the need for artisanal labor, this will replalce a lot of people as well, but improve society overall.

Less labor needed = more people leaving the USA = good for the environment.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:People hated Amazon when it was a top US employer. Now it hates Amazon because it’s going to be less of a US employer. Either way, people are going to hate Amazon. Whatever.

No not whatever.

Trump ran on creating jobs in factories.

There will be no jobs then there will be no money then no one will buy things this is how economics works.

Amazon letting go a half a million workers is just Trump's plan like always we knew if he was elected they would crush the economy and this is where Amazon comes in.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Just like machinery replaced the need for large amounts of farm and ranch labor, and assembly lines replaced the need for artisanal labor, this will replalce a lot of people as well, but improve society overall.

Less labor needed = more people leaving the USA = good for the environment.

Americans with no jobs does not = good for anything

[Anonymous]

My SIL received a box with blood spatter on three items inside. At least robots don’t bleed.

[Anonymous]

LOL Amazon doesn't want unions that is where this is coming from

Not to mention Project 2025 has lots to say about no more employee benefts or workers injury protection etc this falls right into that.

Amazon couldn't get their robotics factory in Jaxsonville to work well enough to let go people. They have a long way to go to make this work like this article implicates.

They will lay off more than a half million but for Project 2025 not for what this article indicates.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The future is now.
A.I. and A.I. controlled bots will replace probably 50% of all jobs in the next decade if advancements continue at the same rate.

I think that's about right. The quest for profit will always choose efficiency and low costs.

Of course, America will be uninhabitable with 50 percent unemployment. I don't think investors have really calculated how much violence armed Americans are capable of. AI and robotics are an absolute disaster at the social and cultural level. And as it creeps up from one level to another, throwing the MC and the UMC into the streets, ugh, the consequences.

So glad we're duel citizens.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Just like machinery replaced the need for large amounts of farm and ranch labor, and assembly lines replaced the need for artisanal labor, this will replalce a lot of people as well, but improve society overall.

Less labor needed = more people leaving the USA = good for the environment.

Americans with no jobs does not = good for anything

Of course it is good. Eventually hardly anyone will "have to work" as robotics do all the work for us.

This is how we get 1 day work weeks and UBI's and less stress in life.

Embrace the future boomer.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The future is now.
A.I. and A.I. controlled bots will replace probably 50% of all jobs in the next decade if advancements continue at the same rate.

I think that's about right. The quest for profit will always choose efficiency and low costs.

Of course, America will be uninhabitable with 50 percent unemployment. I don't think investors have really calculated how much violence armed Americans are capable of. AI and robotics are an absolute disaster at the social and cultural level. And as it creeps up from one level to another, throwing the MC and the UMC into the streets, ugh, the consequences.

So glad we're duel citizens.

You are so out of touch. You just want in debt slave-class (aka lower and middle class) to subjugate.

Times are changing and your hold over the public is fading fast boomer. Change or get out of the way. You can't block up this door way.

The times they are a changing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The future is now.
A.I. and A.I. controlled bots will replace probably 50% of all jobs in the next decade if advancements continue at the same rate.

I think that's about right. The quest for profit will always choose efficiency and low costs.

Of course, America will be uninhabitable with 50 percent unemployment. I don't think investors have really calculated how much violence armed Americans are capable of. AI and robotics are an absolute disaster at the social and cultural level. And as it creeps up from one level to another, throwing the MC and the UMC into the streets, ugh, the consequences.

So glad we're duel citizens.

You can't even spell it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Just like machinery replaced the need for large amounts of farm and ranch labor, and assembly lines replaced the need for artisanal labor, this will replalce a lot of people as well, but improve society overall.

Less labor needed = more people leaving the USA = good for the environment.

Americans with no jobs does not = good for anything

Of course it is good. Eventually hardly anyone will "have to work" as robotics do all the work for us.

This is how we get 1 day work weeks and UBI's and less stress in life.

Embrace the future boomer.

UBI isn’t coming, they are going to let people go homeless.