This really sucks for many disabled people who rely on ‘low skill, repetitive’ jobs to survive. I hope Mercedes addresses this (I doubt, given how capitalists hate disabled people).
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“Low skill” tasks, huh? So I guess they’ll be replacing the CEOs first, eh?
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Make the robots have planned obsolescence and see how they feel about it.
I cannot conceive of a task where a humanoid robot would be better suited than just a robot built for the task without trying to mimic a human form.
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wouldnt it make more sense to do a trial that tests their supposed advantages over purpose built robots rather than one which decidedly does not
This really sucks for many disabled people who rely on ‘low skill, repetitive’ jobs to survive. I hope Mercedes addresses this (I doubt, given how capitalists hate disabled people).
Mercedes also better support UBI so that these workers who will lose their jobs to automation don’t starve to death.
and for people to be able to actually buy their garbage too.
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Governments should push UBI, not corporations like Mercedes
Unless they are forced to care about their workers, they won’t. There is no profitablity to caring about what they see as expenses.