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Amazon is reportedly training humanoid robots to deliver packages
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The problem is, if they can train an android to deliver packages, then it won't be long before all the most mundane labor can be done by androids. Sure, they won't be able to plumb a house, or install a new water heater, but they will be able to do things like basic unclogging, digging trenches and laying the pipe in it, etc. Which will greatly reduce the amount of labor required for these industries. If they can carry packages to the right house, they can carry materials to the right area of construction sites, etc.
The long game is we need to make the ownership of automated production universal.
Oh, no doubt about it, change is coming for everything. Just the hard manual labor stuff is a little farther away. Right now "data manager" jobs and coding and white collar jobs are going first. Then warehouse. Delivery is coming up. It will eventually get to construction and plumbing, but those will be the last jobs automation takes based on how they are done.
And we shouldn't wait until they can replace the jobs to start getting UBI rolled out right now. Because the time is coming. Fast. Regardless of how many Lemmy's screech out, "Oh, but ai sucks at coding" lol