Robots being used as slave labor to load trucks in Hami City, Xinjiang 😔 (www.reddit.com)

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[-] take_five_moments@hexbear.net 16 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

robots

slave labor

hmmm

edit: ah, is joke comrade

[-] InexplicableLunchFiend@hexbear.net 13 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

the origin of the word robot is slave (robota/robotnik)

[-] SuperZutsuki@hexbear.net 7 points 1 week ago

So Dr. Robotnik is Dr. Slave?

[-] InexplicableLunchFiend@hexbear.net 7 points 1 week ago

Worker/Slave yeah

[-] KuroXppi@hexbear.net 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Slave-nik

-nik is a general suffix for -er like in peacenik (one who advocates for peace)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/-nik

(Sorry if you already know this, I don't want to be condescending)

[-] take_five_moments@hexbear.net 6 points 1 week ago

interesting

[-] cornishon@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

It supposedly comes from Czech "robota" which refers to Corvée labor not slavery.

Also in polish the same word it literally just means "labor" or "work", even our Workers Party was named Polska Zjednoczona Partia Robotnicza (Polish United Workers Party)

[-] InexplicableLunchFiend@hexbear.net 5 points 1 week ago

Forced serfdom and indentured servitude are forms of slavery. Not chattel slavery in the way that the slave trade was, but nonetheless it was coerced and forced labor