• kibiz0r@midwest.social
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    2 hours ago

    To be clear, because Ars is doing big PR for capital here by trying to seem neutral…

    The premise is not: we’ll replace some workers with autonomous robots, but the remaining workers will retain the same quality of life and the end products will be cheaper but the same quality.

    The premise is: we’ll replace some domestic workers with exploitable African workers (who happen to telecommute via robot), while creating a layer of plausible deniability for the inevitable increase in workplace injuries among the remaining workers, cutting their pay, and dismantling any quality processes that slow down throughput of these slapdash goods, and selling the lower-quality end products for the same price as ever.

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      Telecommuting by robot is insane.

      I always wonder what good we could do with this and other technology if it wasn’t used to make money and put people out of work.

      • unfinished | 🇵🇸@lemmy.ml
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        We could provide food, clean water, housing, electricity and computing to everyone in the world, but the elites took that away from us just so they could have more private islands and r*** more children