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Standing in the way of slop bowls: the woman blocking food delivery robots (www.theguardian.com)
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[–] 0 points 1 day ago* (4 children)

You're literally arguing that the status quo is better because people need to keep their head above water, and some hand wavey nonsense about crushing the human soul because we automated food delivery.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 day ago (3 children)

    Well excuse me let me put it a different way. The status quo is bullshit and we need unions and advocates as opposed to optimistic sociopaths and pedophiles and grifters Nazis thieves and murderers and rapists in positions of authority. Regulate and account.

    But America as yet to do anything like that in a fucking loooooooong time. So until then fellow peaons survive and vote like all our futures depend on it. Beware the cope, release the files.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 day ago (2 children)

    Yes I agree with all that, but whether we use delivery robots or an extremely unfair gig economy doesn't change any of it. Robotics manufacturing, support, etc should all be unionized and turned into cooperatives of some sort. I wholeheartedly agree. This is a complete non sequitur; continuing to prop up the current gig economy doesn't make unionizing any easier.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 day ago (1 child)

    I agree with that also. It just that I interact with a lot of uber drivers and Lyft drivers and people who have fallen into those predatory systems. They are not sustainable but they are really all a lot of people have. We aren’t at a place in the country right now where anyone is coming to help… yet. There is hope on the horizon but it’s not my fault that the reality is that over and Lyft have successfully usurped the taxi industry with all its regulations into the era of app skirting technological circumvention of said regulation through the onus of it “being the future.”

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  • [–] 2 points 1 day ago*

    That's fair. I guess what's tipping the balance in my mind is that I'm not convinced that those same people wouldn't be able to, at least in significant part, find jobs which would open because of the manufacture and maintenance of these robots, which seems like at least a slightly less exploitative kind of work and worth which doesn't place the extremely high, but deferred, expense of added mileage and vehicle wear and tear on the employee. Given the high amount of wear and tear to these perpetually outdoor robots I figure the maintenance needs are high. Plus it would help reduce the number of interactions where we have tipping, effectively transferring wealth from working people to other working people while the wealthy are taking their relatively abundant free time to instead get fine, sit-down dining where they would presumably tip more affluent service workers from higher socio economic backgrounds.

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