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Old 07-04-2014, 06:13 PM   #99
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Future of Amazon laborers

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Originally Posted by barutanseijin View Post
12.50 per hour is not a particularly good wage. It's 26K/yr. Try raising a child on that. Even in Kentucky. If you're one of those "it's their own fault for reproducing" folks, well, where do you think future Amazon labourers are going to come from? Mars? Where people are demanding a livable minimum wage, they're asking for more.
The future of the Amazon workers is robots. They are already coming off the assembly lines in Japan as we speak. Most automobile plants have replaced 80% of their former workers with robots.

Robots are far more effective at repetitive tasks than humans. They don't get tired and don't complain. Even for war mass armies of humans will be gone. Unmanned ground, air and sea vehicles will do the fighting.

In the future most low wage labor positions will have been robotized. Most humans won't work at all. Maybe the state will have to limit reproduction as China is now doing since large, unskilled populations will be a drag on the state.

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