Dock workers striking against automation is the most American thing I’ve ever heard. When your country has a social safety net, it prevents luddite bullshit like this.
They’re basically right. Automation kills jobs. More profit goes to the corpos and not the workers. If we redistributed those extra profits (tax heavily and reinvest in social programs), losing your job wouldn’t be a potentially life-destroying experience. We don’t need to have jobs that can be automated, but until we use that excess profit to help people, workers literally can’t afford to not do those jobs.
For every job replaced by a robot, at least 1 job is created by way of needing millwright to install the equipment and technicians to commission it and program it.
They break constantly, lmao. They’re so bad, it’s perfect. The more they break, the more job security I have, and boooooy, do they.
A human will apply the brakes when they panic.
Robots don’t panic. Robots go FULL SEND into problems; busted rails, twisted metal. Sensor thinks nothing is there? Nothing is there! whoosh!
The other workers also hate them and frequently sabotage the automated trucks by putting shit in their way, or running over their markers(small reflectors in our warehouse that the trucks align to).
Dock workers striking against automation is the most American thing I’ve ever heard. When your country has a social safety net, it prevents luddite bullshit like this.
ILA is the type of union that conservatives use as the stereotype of all unions in their propaganda. ILA are actual organized crime.
You should go down and tell them just what you thing, smart guy with all the amswers
They’re basically right. Automation kills jobs. More profit goes to the corpos and not the workers. If we redistributed those extra profits (tax heavily and reinvest in social programs), losing your job wouldn’t be a potentially life-destroying experience. We don’t need to have jobs that can be automated, but until we use that excess profit to help people, workers literally can’t afford to not do those jobs.
For every job replaced by a robot, at least 1 job is created by way of needing millwright to install the equipment and technicians to commission it and program it.
Yep
-dude currently repairing automated pallet jacks
They break constantly, lmao. They’re so bad, it’s perfect. The more they break, the more job security I have, and boooooy, do they.
A human will apply the brakes when they panic.
Robots don’t panic. Robots go FULL SEND into problems; busted rails, twisted metal. Sensor thinks nothing is there? Nothing is there! whoosh!
The other workers also hate them and frequently sabotage the automated trucks by putting shit in their way, or running over their markers(small reflectors in our warehouse that the trucks align to).