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

[Anonymous]

“ I guess they won’t need to ask the robots to pee in a bottle to save time on breaks.”

Well that’s great people don’t have to that anymore isn’t it? They can now all learn finance or accounting or law or coding and get normal jobs

[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 am not worried, they can’t do it without UBI, not if they want to avoid major turmoil.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This sounds like simple, old school economics. Maturing businesses (the warehouse / logistics segment of Amazon) strive to increase volume and reduce costs. Labor is one of the biggest costs in running a warehouse operation and Amazon is just doing what corporations have been doing for over 100 years - reduce labor costs, often through mechanization.

Despite our wishes, corporations are not social welfare organizations that try to make the world a better place by, for instance, providing good paying jobs. Corporations exist to return shareholder value. Full stop.

How dare you say full stop

[Anonymous]

Cognitive reading people
600,000 jobs by 2033.

This is a nothing burger in itself.

However Amazon will be laying off way more after 2026 elections Project 2025 told you fools that.

[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 am not worried, they can’t do it without UBI, not if they want to avoid major turmoil.

Oh UBI is basically a guaranteed thing in the future as tech takes over.

Elon Musk has been promoting UBI for over a decade now as he see's the future of tech and knows the reality of the situation.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The company that changed how people shop will soon not have many shoppers left. People need this thing called money to shop.

Amazon makes more profit from AWS than e-commerce.

Source? Last time I checked, Amazon does a lot of creative accounting to obfuscate the details to hide the extent they influence pricing for both buyers and sellers, and to maintain the idea that they're a high growth tech company to keep the stock going.

https://www.fool.com/investing/2024/01/10/amazon-e-commerce-company-74-profit-this-instead/?utm_source=chatgpt.com

Amazon makes 16% of its revenue from AWS, but 70% of its profits from AWS.

[Anonymous]

What's the issue? These are jobs picking items from warehouse shelves and packing them into boxes. Hardly desirable jobs, and no one's making it into a career.

Did you also object to how automatic elevators killed off jobs in the elevator operator industry? How about self-service gas pumps taking the jobs of gas station attendants?

Or automated parking ticketing in garages taking the place of parking garage attendants?

[Anonymous]

Or EZPass taking the jobs away from toll booth workers?

[Anonymous]

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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.

This. The billionaires are more interested in ballrooms that offering anything beneficial to society at large. They'll let people die on the street before building a hospital, they'll let the next generation lose access to school before funding educational programs and universities, they'll find no value for humanity and the ability to dream and invent so they'll defund museums and turn them into hotels and mega mansions.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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 am not worried, they can’t do it without UBI, not if they want to avoid major turmoil.

Oh UBI is basically a guaranteed thing in the future as tech takes over.

Elon Musk has been promoting UBI for over a decade now as he see's the future of tech and knows the reality of the situation.

So how do we fund UBI if taxes are supposed to be lowered/eliminated? Will some states with resources offer it while others don't because they can't? Will certain states have to cap their population and limit "immigration" to avoid UBI shortfalls? Will they billionaires become trilionaires and some of us live in the "Musk district," the "Bezos district," or the "Zuckerberg district," and who knows with his crypto ventures and MAGA devotion, a "Trump district" where you're a glorified serf? Is that where we're headed?

[Anonymous]

I won't be able to afford to buy things from Amazon with so few jobs and a bad economy...

I wonder how many others will be in the same boat. I've already cut way back.

Hope they enjoy their robots.

[Anonymous]

An unemployed underclass with no hope for their future. Yea, that’s going to end well.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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 am not worried, they can’t do it without UBI, not if they want to avoid major turmoil.

Oh UBI is basically a guaranteed thing in the future as tech takes over.

Elon Musk has been promoting UBI for over a decade now as he see's the future of tech and knows the reality of the situation.

If we can’t get healthcare subsidies, we’re never getting UBI.

[Anonymous]

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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...

Guess we will see what happens with the Utah measles outbreak...or the next virus, etc.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: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.

If Bezos can keep the Washington Post running with all of his billions, he is certainly not going to have Amazon go out of business--especially since the majority of the revenue comes from AWS and not retail.

So, needing to fire 500,000 people is not necessary and just means more billions for Bezos.