>Very few parents say: "I hope my child can get a shipping center job stacking bins, day after day, and hold that job for 40 years."
For a lot of parents, the possibility of their children having a secure full-time job is a lofty aspiration. Millions of Americans are trapped in cycles of unemployment or in low-wage jobs with no security and no benefits. Vast swathes of the US are blighted by long-term unemployment, crumbling infrastructure and a lack of inward investment.
Amazon aren't buying these robots out of some altruistic desire to lighten the burden of their workers. Their treatment of warehouse staff is notoriously dreadful. If Bezos could fire every single worker in his warehouses, I have absolutely no doubt that he would.
Better jobs would be great, but at the moment we just need jobs.
If you work in a software company, why don't you stop using calculators and hire a team of 20 women to do computations on slide rules? That's 20 jobs for salt of the earth, hard workin' families.
Your on a PROGRAMMING forum and your advocating for doing things less efficiently just to keep people employed
It's a big enough economy that we can both find lots of examples to support our different world views. Probably not worth arguing that at length.
Still, the U.S. economy has created about 12 million net new jobs since 2012. (BLS data.) The unemployment rate is at 4.3% now, down from about 8%. For people willing to hunt for something better, the hunt is getting easier.
For a lot of parents, the possibility of their children having a secure full-time job is a lofty aspiration. Millions of Americans are trapped in cycles of unemployment or in low-wage jobs with no security and no benefits. Vast swathes of the US are blighted by long-term unemployment, crumbling infrastructure and a lack of inward investment.
Amazon aren't buying these robots out of some altruistic desire to lighten the burden of their workers. Their treatment of warehouse staff is notoriously dreadful. If Bezos could fire every single worker in his warehouses, I have absolutely no doubt that he would.
Better jobs would be great, but at the moment we just need jobs.
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