Amazon's robots are just the tip of the iceberg. Walmart, the nation's biggest employer...

[redqueen]

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[USALiberal]

1. You can't and shouldn't stop technology enhancements, has always happened. Nt

[janterry]

2. I agree

n/t

[Turin_C3PO]

3. True but we have to

prepare for it accordingly. AI will soon mean the loss of millions of jobs. Some will be replaced with other types of jobs but not enough. Eventually, we will need a basic universal income stipend to ensure mass poverty doesn’t ensue.

[redqueen]

6. Precisely this!

UBI is inevitable. I'd love if if Dems are the party that starts this, because I think the coattails from this program will last for a long, long time.

[delisen]

5. How are European countries managing?

[Mosby]

4. We have to compete with china somehow, right?

Thanks to china, india, etc wages are trending down, not up.

That's free trade.

[alwaysinasnit]

7. There is also the tax code that provides US businesses with incentives to offshore jobs.

[eleny]

8. A cheap labor eceonomy has always been the goal of big companies

[TidalWave46]

9. Hopefully it's heading to grocery stores implementing more automation.

The Walmart "picker" missed two items from my order yesterday. Missed. Not out of stock. Not substituted.

[redqueen]

10. Yep I've had that happen too.

Increased safety and fewer errors are just more reasons why this trend will not just continue - it will speed up, and spread to new areas. It's exciting and scary but also exhilarating, because I'm hopeful we'll implement Hawking's suggestion here