Of course they do. This isn't really a secret.

when Bezos says he thinks we will be living in space by 2040 i'm starting to believe that what he is saying is that if you don't have a job they will sling off of the planet

The rich get richer. The poor get poorer.

Will those robots also be their new customers?

So... there goes Amazon's argument that they should ever get preferential tax treatment due to all the jobs they supposedly create

LOL...like they replaced AWS IT with AI last week? How's that working out?

They hope to replace customers with robots too.

no worries as the robots are all controlled from aws.

Warehouse jobs are garbage and should be automated. Amazon should also be nationalized. The problem isn't automation, it is, as always, capitalism.

Well they’re not invested in all of these robotic companies and automation companies because they want to sell the tech to their competitors.

It’s clear that the goal is to have warehouses be more automated, and for deliveries to be handled by things like Zoox.

Day turk er jawbs!

How many workers will they need to maintain, repair and retrieve robots?

When all of the jobs are gone, who will have any money to put in Prime orders?

I uninstalled my Amazon app a month ago, and I haven't missed it. It started as an experiment to see if I can live without it. Seems I can.

#amazon

Those 600,000 workers should quit right fucking now. See how long Amazon lasts before bezos sets all those robots up himself.

I should be cynical about AI and labor displacement, but…

Does anyone actually want to wreck their bodies by walking all over a giant warehouse and lifting heavy unwieldy objects?

Now the robots will do all of that.

We’ll just need some humans to uh… follow them around the warehouse… and move them when they break down. (This is totally different, you see.)

And do the original task that glitched it out. And dodge all of the other robots while doing so. And be paid less because we have robots now.

This makes me SO glad I do not use Amazon.

They talk about some of this stuff here where they present new robot that can "touch" things. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2X4CU3jmw-g

Buy local, Amazon is a cancer on this earth

Don't worry, everyone. 95% of our jobs will be replaced with robots.

And I know what you're thinking. Yes, the money will rightly be given to the billionaires. See, nothing to worry about. Nothing. So glad Trump is doing nothing but deregulation LLM's and attacking workers rights.

They have always wanted to replace all their workers with robots.

It’s why nobody should have capitulated and gave them tax cuts for warehouses and fulfillment centers.

Amazon has been such a terrible employer for so long that they're almost forced to do this, any other concerns aside.

They've burned and churned such a large percentage of the American population that would ever potentially work for them, that they are legitimately going to run out of people to hire. Automation is going to be their only possible way of getting their grunt work done.

This would be a good thing in the timeline where governments actually gave a shit and we had universal basic income for everyone. No human should have to slave away for 8+ hours a day just to survive when most work can be automated.

Nationalize Amazon.

Let me get this straight:

• everybody wants free same day logistics
• nobody want to work under those conditions
• if we deliagte inhumane jobs to robots, everybody is mad

Where is the logic?

And when you see an Amazon box on your doorstep today, know you directly paid for this.

As they actively destroy any chance of progress in computing? Probably even degressing it by supporting the AI bubble? Good luck with having robots that can't do more than 5% of the basics of what an average human can do :)

Sure it'll be able to do it very "efficiently", but that efficiency is extremely relative at best, and sacrifices way more in the background making it less efficient overall.

Too bad the people running these companies can't see beyond their next quarterly numbers to know this, or know how business, technology, the economy, or how humans work.

I mean, yeah... robots don't take sick days or form unions. Kinda sounds like a no brainer for them. And hearing how many workers complain about crappy warehouse jobs and terrible pay everyone is better off.

Doesn't mean I'm going to be giving them money though, however I guess I can't boycott something I'm not using, but others should.

Why not the overpaid c-suite?

Well, it's better than the alternative of humans suffering in those conditions.

I fully support millions of people not having to work anymore. Obviously we must implement GMI, Universal Healthcare, and employee a giant army of federal workers to run the hospitals, and staff to expand all of our other federal institutions.

Not surprised, but they've been trying to do this for a decade. While AI is creating AI slop all over the internet they've been all too distracted to build anything meaningful and real robotics for a while. I'm sure they're getting really close at doing a few things, but humans are complex things. I'll believe they're close to doing this when they release self driving cars out of beta.

It also shows that if labor cost being eliminated is only a 30 cent saving per product, then a higher salary can’t result in that much of an increase in

They probably mean it's predicted to make them 20ct more profit per item, not shave off cost for us, right? Most I ever see is increased prices and then the minimum order to qualify for free shipping increase by 10€ last year, and by another 10€ this year...?!

About time. Who wants to do the robots job now days. Who desires to stock and fulfill orders in a warehouse if a robot can do it.

Do we regret vending machine?

THIRTY WHOLE CENTS?! :singing: I'm in the money, I'm in the money...

Begin with bezos should be easy enough just dropin replacement

I bet they do after none of them could clock in yesterday

Surely that means cheaper products!

Amazon also hopes to automate consumers by 2032

Tax the robots.