The Picard Maneuver@lemmy.worldM to memes@lemmy.world · 2 days agoWe're being short-sightedlemmy.worldimagemessage-square120fedilinkarrow-up11.04Karrow-down118
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minus-squareDogWater@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up5·1 day agoThat’s true until it isn’t. Automation is on its way. Marching ever onward. The factory I work in built a new building this year that employs 1/4 of the workers as the next newest one and does 2.5x the output.
minus-squareGenosseFlosse@feddit.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up2·edit-220 hours agoYou still need loaders, drivers, retailers to get anything to the customer. A lot of rich ski and holiday towns can’t staff the stores and Cafe’s, because the employees can’t afford to pay rent in the same towns, so they face a similar issue…
minus-squareexplodicle@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·11 hours agoAmazon is already testing robotic loaders, self driving trucks are already in development, and vending machines retail everything in Japan.
That’s true until it isn’t. Automation is on its way. Marching ever onward.
The factory I work in built a new building this year that employs 1/4 of the workers as the next newest one and does 2.5x the output.
You still need loaders, drivers, retailers to get anything to the customer. A lot of rich ski and holiday towns can’t staff the stores and Cafe’s, because the employees can’t afford to pay rent in the same towns, so they face a similar issue…
Amazon is already testing robotic loaders, self driving trucks are already in development, and vending machines retail everything in Japan.