• The Giant Korean
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    471 month ago

    Good news! We’ll be exctinct long before this happens. One less thing to worry about!

    • @[email protected]
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      141 month ago

      Seems hyperbolic to assume we will be extinct by 9999.

      Sure we’re heading for a climate crisis, but I don’t think all humans will be dead; Just the poorest.

      • @Donkter
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        321 month ago

        That has forever been the fallacy.

        The poor won’t die in the apocalypse leaving only the rich behind. The poor will die, and the rich will be faced with the harsh reality that they needed an army of poor working under them to sustain themselves, leading them to all die within the generation.

        • @DogWater
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          51 month ago

          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.

          • @[email protected]
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            1 month ago

            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…

            • @[email protected]
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              230 days ago

              Amazon is already testing robotic loaders, self driving trucks are already in development, and vending machines retail everything in Japan.

              • @[email protected]
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                129 days ago

                Maybe, but there are still a lot of invisible people involved to get the food all the way to your table. And small suppliers cannot afford to switch their whole operation to robots.

                • @DogWater
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                  229 days ago

                  Yeah so they go out of business lol