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People think jobs are necessary while we can just use machines and let them do it for us.
We don’t need jobs. We need to have a safety net for people who don’t have a job instead. A UBI is a good example. Creating jobs is such a capitalistic thing
Technically they’re not wrong. Someone at walmart has to source and buy the self scanners. 🤷♂️
Not gonna lie, I’d rather not have to have a checker make minimum wage and be on food stamps.
no, sorry. we shouldnt lament jobs replaced by automation/easier to use systems. we should be pissed that billionares like the waltons arent taxed at 100%, and that their lowest paid employee makes thousand of times less than the management.
otehrwise youre just a buggy-whip maker shouting into the darkness
Easier to use? That shit is not easier, it’s exactly what the cashier does, but now you are doing it for free.
If it was a system where you dump your shit and it totals it for you, that would be easier.
Thank you! I hate doing self checkout unless i have like 2 or 3 things. Thats how it even started anyways, most shops had them as express lanes for shoppers with just a couple things to buy. If i have more than one bag’s worth of groceries I’m going to let someone else who is paid to scan and bag do it for me.
When I’m shopping I want to get my stuff, and get out, even when I buy a lot of stuff. I do that faster than waiting in line for a register on average. Plus then i don’t have to talk to someone which is nice.
There should be both. Self check and a few clerks. Let people choose.
Yup, we should be demanding things like UBI, good gov provided housing and healthcare funded by proper taxing of the rich.
Not futily fighting against progress, if the job can be automated well and efficiently then the job shouldn’t exist anymore.
Instead of jobs for a select few “minimum wage slaves,” Walmart has created work for every single customer. Very egalitarian.
