Tuesday, June 04, 2019
Fake threat of fake automation
Via ZH: More distraction about automation.
Usually the fake threat of automation distracts us from the REAL threat of offshoring. In this case the "threat" isn't even an increase of automation.
The automation wave is expected to dramatically reshape the US economy in the 2020s. This disruption will impact the labor force and cause tremendous job losses. By 2030, automation could eliminate 20% to 25% of current jobs -- equivalent to 40 million displaced workers, hitting the bottom 90% of Americans the hardest. AJC said the Butler robots are like "giant Roombas" that move between 6,000 refrigerator-size shelving units lined up in rows 85 deep within the warehouse. An employee summons the robot with a handheld device, it then uses a jack to lift the shelving unit and transports it to the human picker, who then grabs items out of the bins, scans it and hands it off to the packaging department.This is nothing new and clearly doesn't displace any humans. Traveling cranes and remote controlled warehouse vehicles have been around for 100 years. Why is this article treating NONautomation as a threat?
The new, robot-powered warehouse in McDonough, Georgia, is currently undergoing pilot tests and will begin operations in June. Project Verte, a start-up trying to compete with Amazon, is responsible for automating the warehouse.Got it. This system might compete with Amazon, so Amazon mobilizes its journalist robots to kill the threat. As fucking always, the truly dangerous robots are the wetware robots working for Satan.
Labels: malign misattribution
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