In real life ... they make no investment in their employees, yet they expect them to work at full efficiency even if they are missing a limb or an organ

[–] errer 17 points 4 months ago (1 children)

If it wasn’t for the smell, they’d weekend at bernies your corpse in the Walmart if would make them a buck.

[–] FlyingSquid 0 points 4 months ago

I'm picturing a Walmart greeter corpse on strings like a marionette...

[–] afraid_of_zombies 13 points 4 months ago

I think OCP was trying to win private policing contracts in other cities. If they could offer robocops, a LEO who produced measurable better results over traditional police departments they could get more contracts.

So it wasn't really an investment in a worker it was a tech demonstration.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Wasn’t the point that the actual robots produced by the corp that made him were unwanted and mistrusted by the public, so they took an almost dead cop and rebuilt him as a human looking robot to popularize the tech?

They didn’t invest in him they just bought a corpse for marketing purposes and made it a robot with a face.

[–] TempermentalAnomaly 7 points 4 months ago (1 children)

All of that investment was offset by government grants and tax write offs.

[–] saltesc 2 points 4 months ago

No, no, no. Remember, ihe wasn't some super soldier saving a nation, just a police officer. Here's an example of Robocop funding...

https://lemmy.world/post/11955175