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Old 12-01-2014, 07:16 AM   #16
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CNET has the numbers, details, and how they name the robots.
(A bit creepy, methinks.)
What?! No Huey, Dewey, or Louie?
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What?! No Huey, Dewey, or Louie?
They're not in the greenhouse business just yet.
Give'em time.
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Old 12-01-2014, 07:32 AM   #18
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Old 12-01-2014, 10:16 AM   #19
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It's the same in the automobile industry. Robots are replacing human workers. This has led to the oddity that automobile factories are becoming more productive and profitable while employing less and less people.

Without jobs, you have to wonder who will be able to buy the products in the end.
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That would be the "poor, abused and underpaid" warehouse workers?
Don't you see? They are liberating them!

Amazon is turning a new leaf and freeing their wage slaves from the drudgery of manual labor so they can find nice high-paying air conditioned union jobs.
Are you serious? I'm not sure.
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Are you serious? I'm not sure.
You did notice the sarcastic smiley, right?

The straight answer is that without robots, Amazon's fullfillment business just can't scale to the $200-500B a year size their 25% annual growth promises. And most of that growth is coming from their merchant fullfillment services, not the highly visible direct consumer sales.

Look at the size of Wal-Mart's infrastructure investment in stores and personnel and compare it (where possible) to Amazon. WalMart moves $500B of merchandise a year and employs 2.2 million people. Amazon is moving $75-100B with 136,000 employees. And they pay higher entry level wages. Odds are, Amazon can scale to half of WalMart's volume with a tenth the staff. With robots they get a 5x staff productivity multiplier. (Not due solely to the robots--digutal products and services are another part of the equation, but the robots are important.)

Amazon needs the robots to keep staffing costs from exploding and capping their growth while there is still room in the market for them to grow.

Plus, it reduces their exposure to populist union pressure.
With less employees per unit of merchandise, they can easily afford to pay 50% above minimum wage (with added benefits) to their entry level employees. Which they do. So if the minimum wage increases or if the "living wage" activists win, Amazon is still covered.

It's just Bezos being Bezos: people complained about the nature of the job, so he changed the nature of the job, improved the company's growth potential and competitive positioning, *and* reduced their exposure to political pressure.

Business, 21st century style.
It's interesting to watch folks like that work around obstacles; everybody expects them to zig and instead they zag... and make it pay off.


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http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/01/bu...=tw-share&_r=1

http://www.theguardian.com/money/201...ing-for-amazon

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They're not in the greenhouse business just yet.
Give'em time.
At least American Airlines is still in business...

Are we fossils or what?
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...but Pan Am isn't
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It's the same in the automobile industry. Robots are replacing human workers. This has led to the oddity that automobile factories are becoming more productive and profitable while employing less and less people.

Without jobs, you have to wonder who will be able to buy the products in the end.
Robot writers put millions of copy typists out of work when I was a kid.
We called them "Xerox machines" after the most prominent manufacturer.
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We called them "Xerox machines" after the most prominent manufacturer.
Really ruined the social life of a lot of white collar workers, too.
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Really ruined the social life of a lot of white collar workers, too.
But not all. Take Judy Bernly, for instance...
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But not all. Take Judy Bernly, for instance...
Sorry.
Not interested. Let somebody else do it.

In my profession, guys used to marry their computers and it was a healthy thing, demographically speaking. Nowadays it's... creepy.

Progress.


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It's the same in the automobile industry. Robots are replacing human workers. This has led to the oddity that automobile factories are becoming more productive and profitable while employing less and less people.

Without jobs, you have to wonder who will be able to buy the products in the end.
Turns out, in China several restaurants are already using robot waiters.
With a 5 year warranty, it is apparently cheaper than paying human waiters.
This, in cheap labor china.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/fo...aff-costs.html

Doesn't bode well for aspiring thespians.
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