Robots solve inequality in a social, humane society. Not in Capitalism. Capitalism is based on inequality, it cannot survive without oppression.

You've just spent the night sleeping face-down in a plate of synth-spaghetti in a bar called the Chatsubo. After rubbing the sauce out of your eyes, you can see Chiba sky through the window, the color of television tuned to a dead channel. Ratz's prosthetic Russian arm whines as he wipes the bar. "I don't care if you eat that spaghetti or sleep in it, you still gotta pay for it. 46 credits. Pay up, cyberscum." "Sorry Ratz. I can't afford it. Want me to give it back?" "You're under arrest, citizen, for not paying your tab." "You find yourself in a Justice booth. On the wall monitor in front of you if the huge image of a frowning Compu-Judge. On the smaller monitor is there serious face of a Compu-Lawyer "You have been charged with a serious crime, citizen. I will be your Judge. Due to the serious nature of your crime, there can only be one verdict... Guilty. You must remain in Chiba City. A fine of 500 credits will be deducted from your bank account."

CEOs and owners hate payroll, it's their biggest "expense" and many would eliminate all employees the second they are able to.

The board would be very happy to have that expense removed; a perfect capitalist company needs no employees, just robots.

At least we'll get to see the CEOs bitch, they're quite an expense on their own and will also be replaced.

In my town the children fuck with these to learn to fuck with waymos when they grow up. Trapping them with signs is funny and you can't get in trouble, bashing/stripping them is cooler but they're expensive enough that pretty much any damage is a "felony" so watch out for that

Robots can pick up corpses of the formerly homeless without feeling bad about it.

So has anyone broken into one of these things for food yet or no? Because I could definitely see a particularly hungry crackhead with a pry bar cracking one open like a kinder surprise egg.

Remember cow tipping? That possibly urban myth about farmer's kids pushing over sleeping cows? I was just thinking about that for some reason. Seems like good viral video content, I mean if it were true.

Robots that automate food and medical care production and that are open source will make capitalism obsolete. Not robots in general.

Robots will solve wealth equality...

Yeah, we'll all be equally poor.

I love how distopian cyberpunk the reality has become. We're living a fantasy!

"Robots will replace all jobs and work for us!" -- Who realistically thought they would be in the "us" here?

Robots belong to companies owned by shareholders, but mostly oligarchs. In their view, when robots work for "them", human population has been culled with 99.9% of the population died by starvation and/or stopped reproducing, and the 0.1% billionaire families survivors enjoy a cosy life where robots do everything.

Until the system crashes and none of these idiots know how to fix anything.

That's one more human extinction scenario to the list…

Goddamn clankers

I think robots can help, but it requires laws, overhauled society, and a twist on things. Instead of companies owning many individual robots, such as shelf stockers, cleanup bots, and food handlers, individual people own a single robot. This robot is loaned out to companies, but service can be retracted by the human owner.

That sort of requirement would make it so that companies can't become automated fiefdoms of an individual will, as they have to get robotic labor from ordinary people.

Shit is devolving faster than I thought...

Robots will solve inequality because once the military is fully automated, the 1% will murder everyone they dont want to have sex with.

Hope youre hotter then a 8.

Why are people still using Twitter?

If you're poor enough to need to pay for pizza in installments, you don't need to get it delivered to your doorstep. Walk out and get it.

(Unless it's too dangerous to walk the streets in the US now idk)

Don't let it bring you down It's only castles burning Find someone who's turning And you ARE ON THE FASTEST ROUTE.