Uniqlo cut 90% of staff at one warehouse by replacing them with robots
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Re: Uniqlo cut 90% of staff at one warehouse by replacing them with robots
#2This will likely be the new norm as the technology gets cheaper and cheaper.
Re: Uniqlo cut 90% of staff at one warehouse by replacing them with robots
#3Modern societies are going to have a very real problem to grapple with as this replacement goes from newsworthy to the norm. This could result in significant worker displacement with massive bottom-line ROI for companies in the next decade or two, particularly as minimum wages rise.
I'm not of the opinion that this automation will create an equal number of jobs for the ones they replace. Even if they do, it is unlikely those new positions will employ the same degree of skilled worker.
Assuming a net unskilled job reduction due to automation in a couple of decades, what happens as this becomes pervasive in a society?
Re: Uniqlo cut 90% of staff at one warehouse by replacing them with robots
#4It's OK, the staff will just find new jobs as electronics engineers and machine learning researchers. /s
Re: Uniqlo cut 90% of staff at one warehouse by replacing them with robots
#5How about instead of selling robots to companies to replace their laborers, we sell robots to the workers to do their jobs. You keep getting paid as long as you keep your robot running.
Re: Uniqlo cut 90% of staff at one warehouse by replacing them with robots
#6Any word about their severance packages? That’s what determines if I keep shopping there. Salary for a reasonable job search period and I can’t hold it against them.
Re: Uniqlo cut 90% of staff at one warehouse by replacing them with robots
#7Modern societies are going to have a very real problem to grapple with as this replacement goes from newsworthy to the norm. This could result in significant worker displacement with massive bottom-line ROI for companies in the next decade or two, particularly as minimum wages rise. I'm not of the opinion that this automation will create an equal number of jobs for the ones they replace. Even if they do, it is unlike…
The lower class gets bigger and bigger, and is either kept just happy enough to not revolt or...
At some point this boils over and the ultra wealthy are forced to redistribute wealth either through new political policy or by violent force.
Re: Uniqlo cut 90% of staff at one warehouse by replacing them with robots
#8How about instead of selling robots to companies to replace their laborers, we sell robots to the workers to do their jobs. You keep getting paid as long as you keep your robot running.
> How about instead of selling robots to companies to replace their laborers, we sell robots to the workers to do their jobs. You keep getting paid as long as you keep your robot running.
You're basically talking about the democratization of capital. Companies and their owners will resist it tooth and nail, since they want to reap the dividends.
I don't think we'll get to a world like that, with former laborers owning the automation that replaced them, without some kind of radically new regulatory regime or an outright revolution.
Re: Uniqlo cut 90% of staff at one warehouse by replacing them with robots
#9How about instead of selling robots to companies to replace their laborers, we sell robots to the workers to do their jobs. You keep getting paid as long as you keep your robot running.
Are the workers putting up the capital to purchase the robots?
Re: Uniqlo cut 90% of staff at one warehouse by replacing them with robots
#10Well, Parkinsons law seems to be intact so we will all work in middle management in a few decades, all responsible for requesting service level agreements from each others legal department AIs.