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this article claims that retail jobs are going to be automated. lol. i'd love to see the robots walking around the store selling shit.

i don't doubt automation is happening, but this chicken little shit that portrays the future as almost everyone being jobless and homeless while the evil robots take over is just a bit ridiculous.

uh and automated kiosks are my enemy. i tend to buy more than i normally would.

no one believes that a store is going to be completely and entirely manned by robots. all it means is that you're going to have a fewer amount of humans present in the store, which still fucking sucks

see: self checkouts. one person is now running 4 lanes. sure, there are some normal lanes open too still. but that self checkout lane is still one person doing what used to be a four person job

if you don't think large companies eat that shit up and are going to continue encouraging that sort of development, idk what to say, man

well maybe if those four people weren't so fucking incompetent that customers decided that they'd rather bag their own fucking groceries because cheap ass grocery stores keep hiring 90 year old ladies too senile and twitchy to properly bag groceries.

i'm glad those idiots are out of a job. maybe if they did their job efficiently and properly, we customers wouldn't have decided that we could do a better job on our own.

aaand you tipped your hand too early

ah we've reached the sensitive days when reality is trolling.

i'm sorry, did i not pat your ass enough, chicken little?

sure, jan

don't be mad, felicia

nah man automation of jobs that most people think of as too "complex" or "creative" for robots or requiring too much social nuance is a real thing that's happening

eg, barista robots that will remember you and the way you take your coffee no matter where you are, robots that write music, and watson (IBM's robot that went on jeopardy a bajillion years ago), which was developed as a doctor robot

i'm a programmer and something my mentor says all the time is "the ultimate goal of our job is to make our jobs obsolete."

this is a good video on the topic (all the examples above come from here): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Pq-S557XQU

thinking that automation is going to stay just in manufacturing/unskilled labor and that there isn't real potential for it to balloon the unemployment rate is naive

hi cgpgrey watcher

hi!! you've got good taste nonny

so we're all going to get fucked in the end.

i mean probably not, but mitigating the damage means being aware of these issues coming down the pipeline and not just sitting around with our thumbs up our asses

nobody's saying it's never going to happen, but if you think it's going to happen in your lifetime, your mentor seriously blew smoke up your ass.

my mentor does not literally mean i should make myself unemployed, no. good eye, sherlock holmes

i know it's a shocker to care about what happens in the future, but there you have it

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