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Amazon's role in society is not to provide menial jobs to keep people busy though. If anything, the automation provides good, innovative jobs in robotics. Those are the sorts of jobs I think everyone should have. Leave fetching and carrying to robots, and educate people to be useful in more meaningful, fulfilling, and impactful ways.

Suggesting that robots are bad because they take jobs from people doing horrible, boring jobs just says that you want people to carry on doing that work. That's not a good look.



>just says that you want people to carry on doing that work

Or that we don't want them to starve. We are talking about the US where their isn't really an effective solution to help people without jobs.


Can you share your data on starvation in the US? I’m sincerely curious about it.



The people working in the low skill jobs being eliminated aren't capable of contributing in more meaningful, impactful ways. That's why they work in low skill jobs.


If the robots are the ones altering the position of matter at or near the earth’s surface relatively to other such matter, there are still roles for telling them to do so, and history suggests the latter work is capable of indefinite extension: there are not only those who give orders but those who give advice as to what orders should be given.

(plagiarism intentional)




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