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Tell that to people that could have had jobs as a cashier that those machines have taken away.
May the hammer of Enoch do it's work.
Doing less work has been the primary motivating factor behind basically all of human progress. The problem is that the savings is lining shareholder pockets instead of reducing employee workload.
Yep, hence the Luddite reference.
I will, no problem. Luddites have no place today, thank you.
Heck, cashiers are still wprking where I live. One of them just gets assigned to 6 or 8 self checkouts instead of normal register.
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Oh no, automation getting rid of shit jobs people didn't like already, the horror
Just learn to code right bro. You dumb ass libs always assume everyone is as skilled as you and every job you don't want to do is lesser. Some people like being cashiers.
Get back at me when you learn some labor theory and intersectionalize more.
Lol, no, don't put words in my mouth, dickhead
Swing and a miss
Even BIGGER miss. I'm an asshole and assume most people are far less skilled than me, and am regularly proven right
Your words, not mine, I don't consider cashier's to be lesser to me in any way unless they, as an individual, give me reason to
Yeah, you'll notice you said "some" and not "most", so what's your point, exactly?
Get back at me when you learn how to discuss what was said and not prop up a shitty strawman
There is no automation getting rid of a shit job. The customers now have the privilege to do that job for themselves.
Pick one: it's losing people their jobs, or it's not
Quite prefer doing it myself, none of my local stores have any of the issues listed elsewhere on the thread. Must suck for them but that's not a reason to not progress