Amazon plans to use automation to replace more than 600,000 workers who would otherwise be hired in the United States by 2033, according to internal documents obtained by The New York Times. By that time, the company is expected to sell about twice as many goods as it does today.

Amazon’s robotics team is reportedly working toward the goal of automating 75% of its entire business. By 2027, it is expected to eliminate around 160,000 jobs in the US, saving the company an estimated $12.6 billion — equivalent to around 30 cents per item delivered.

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[+] 24 points 1 year ago (1 child)
  • [–] 46 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    ... and they will have automated drone delivery by 2015!!

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  • [–] 29 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Let's replace their customers with not-customers.

    Shame everything you do on the internet supports them through AWS though. Maybe they need more outages to drive those customers away.

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  • [–] 17 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Into the arms of the one or two competitors they have? We are living in a time of virtual monopoly, everything they warned us about with communism has come to pass- we are going to see bread lines before long. Government and industry is perfectly intermingled, there is nowhere else to go, the free market was always a complete and blatant lie, no matter where you turn, you will only be propping up the system stomping your face.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago

    Seems to be working well for AWS.

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  • [–] [S] 17 points 1 year ago

    Flash sale: 30% off Teddy Bears

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    and I’ve replaced amazon with normal shopping

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    This is great news for the army recruitment of desperate people who will fight this unjust system of modern slavery and tear down the oligarchy!

    We are all about to starve and fight.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago*

    fun fact, during the 08 crash, by 09 a shit ton of people trying joining the military because of the poor economic prospects(this aside from thier usual targets like poor rural red areas, or middle or lowincome pocs), and alot of them were getting rejected, because theres too many trying to join and then obama was trying to downsize the military, reducing involvement overseas. (i was following a forum that was discussing about people joining(the mods/owners have direct knowledge waiver system(medical issues, financial, criminal that would reject you or approve you). it was pretty dicey until trumps first term, he sorta reverse the trend, and people were joining again more easily(unless your condition has been in where the military have never accepted a enlistee with that condition, people still tried though), i was surprised people with previous treated/'cured' cancers tried to join.

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  • [–] 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (7 children)

    I quit using Amazon because the third party delivery company locally is owned by a neighbor that hates me. They sided-lined 10 or 11 packages in a row or just wouldn't delivery them from their distribution center. I'd call support and they said the company just refused to delivery. They would send a ticket to the center. And they would ignore it.

    And amazon would sit on the return for months because the delivery company would re-route my packages to have a delivery date months out. So amazon would sit on the refund for months waiting for the delivery date.

    One driver apologized that he had to ask my neighbors first before delivering anything to this address.

    And Amazon didn't care shit in my opinion. No privacy as my packages were opened. No nothing but some folks in another country on the phone telling me call back in a week.

    And that jackass delivery owner is a rich, blackmailing, federal agent piece of shit in my opinion.

    Amazon is just another criminal sycophant-making machine in my opinion.

    Bring on the robots.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    I mean, we are about to hit a tipping point where there will be enough poor, unfed masses to rise up and tear down this disgusting charade of a society. We have been running on fumes for so long, I can't even believe modern civilization is still standing.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago

    The only reason why we haven’t toppled (at least in the US) is because not enough people are missing their 3 meals. The second that happens for a large enough portion of the population the country will disintegrate. Food shortages are a massive destabilizing force and will force massive changes to compensate.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago*

    The robots are there to replace the apologetic delivery driver, not the rich asshole. They'd never let that happen.

    Bots can just as easily be programmed with an address blacklist. At least a delivery driver with a spine could choose to ignore that list, if his livelihood wasn't on the line...

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago

    Call your state ag and report them.

    If it were me I’d be out there with a camera every fucking day reporting a single blade of grass out of place if i could.

    Contact the irs and tell them you think they are cheating taxes ffs.

    I would not fuck around.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    I dunno, this is way more personal than what the idiom usually presents, it isn't really representative of most experiences. Now, I quit Amazon when they started pushing the 51st state merch, cause I can get most of what I used Amazon for straight from China and cut out the fascists playing scrape the value in the middle

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago

    Should be pretty easy for those 600k people to find other living wage jobs that will allow them to keep buying stuff off Amazon.

    /s

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    This was always the plan. Everyone knew this. And still, governors all over the country gave sweet deals for amazon to set up warehouses to create imaginary jobs.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Isn't this what all those artists were insisting they wanted? AI replacing rote labor instead of their "creative" jobs like producing advertising and concept art?

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  • [–] [S] 5 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    You forgot the part where companies suddenly and magically become benevolent and use their newly gained wealth to finance artist's lifestyles. Presumably the ones that haven't been replaced by AI.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    The "just give us money" part of the artist's wish is usually left unspoken.

    Personally, I'm a supporter of UBI. It's not reasonable to expect the companies to do something like this, this is the role and responsibility of government.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    Since when do we post Amazon's investor marketing messages unfiltered here?

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  • [–] -5 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    This is wrong.

    They aren't going to replace workers. It is just that they will hire 600 000 less workers than they normally would because they want to use AI instead.

    The people working there still have job security.

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