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Ive done warehouse work. Using technology to squeeze every inch of "productivity" from a human being rather than trying to meaningfully improve their lives is dystopian.
Forklifts are dystopian, just technology squeezing out more productivity. It would be better to have to carry everything by hand, like nature intended.
That's obviously a false equivalence. Forklifts and manual pickers fulfil different roles in the warehouse. This technology would only be viable to the business if ot drastically increased the expectation on the pickers.
Forklifts also replace physical work. This headset wouldnt.
Squeezing every inch of productivity from a human is just a product of late stage capitalism and happens no matter what.
This technology, by itself, would improve the employees lives by making it so they don't have to waste their time and walk quite as much.
Could the same tech not be applied to machines instead of humans? I dont see how this would make peoples lives easier. It would just increase the expectation of how much they pick.
Yea, I totally agree that we should be making tech to get rid of tedious labor like that. I'm just saying that if a company chooses to increase its employees quota that's more just a consequence of companies putting profits over people like they do. The tech itself can be used solely to make employees lives better at less heartless companies.
The reality will undoubtedly be the first one though, which is something straight from dystopian scifi. No company is going to spend all that money on AR headsets to make their worker's lives better.