If you see a human doing something it's only because it's too expensive for a robot/machine/software to do it.
If you see a human doing something it's only because it's too expensive for a robot/machine/software to do it. Delightfully, robot comes from a Czech word originating in "hard work, servitude, serfdom". Basically a slave. Any business looking to drive down costs push their human components as close to slavery as is allowable by law or acceptable to the workers. So when people fight to preserve human jobs in say, fast food, agriculture, or factories, in general you see them preserved by humans opting to work for less or in worse conditions. Cheap human labor actually starts to limit technological progress at this point. So, where's that leave the future? Hopefully we can move to a post-employment world, where people don't need masses of near-robot human resources to make profits. I don't know what the world looks like, but to me it's better than a world where humans compete with each other to be better robots for their bosses.
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IMO it's a bit more nuanced than what the author portrays it as.
In the UK Amazon have now raised the price of general shipping to be 2/3 the price of a months prime subscription.
Credit where credit is due, critics claiming "[Apple device] is too expensive for something that just does [basic function]" have been pr...
I like to buy music.
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If you see a human doing something it's only because it's too expensive for a robot/machine/software to do it.
If you see a human doing something it's only because it's too expensive for a robot/machine/software to do it. Delightfully, robot comes from a Czech word originating in "hard work, servitude, serfdom". Basically a slave. Any business looking to drive down costs push their human components as close to slavery as is allowable by law or acceptable to the workers. So when people fight to preserve human jobs in say, fast food, agriculture, or factories, in general you see them preserved by humans opting to work for less or in worse conditions. Cheap human labor actually starts to limit technological progress at this point. So, where's that leave the future? Hopefully we can move to a post-employment world, where people don't need masses of near-robot human resources to make profits. I don't know what the world looks like, but to me it's better than a world where humans compete with each other to be better robots for their bosses.
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