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BMW’s South Carolina plant is testing humanoid robot workers (www.theverge.com)

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[–] AllonzeeLV 41 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (3 children)

This technology could and should be implemented to free humankind from menial, repetitive labor.

Instead, the market capitalist oligarchs will use it to metastasize their hoards of ill-gotten exploited wealth even further, and many peasants will pathetically respond by protesting to "save" the menial back breaking jobs from the "evil robots" when they should be protesting and rioting against the rigged economy, oligarchs, and Wall Street, demanding this technology be used to profit/better society as well.

It is foolish in every way to protest to protect jobs that leave many crippled by 40 that a robot can do 24/7 better and faster. It is the wrong target. The owner class is your enemy, not this technology. Please don't waste your energy advocating we artificially maintain shitty, back breaking jobs just to keep more humans subsisting under this rigged economy. This rigged economy is what needs your anger to prevent this beneficial technology being used against you by malevolent capitalists.

Also, as the technology matures, no amount of protest of this tech will matter. These things will outperform humans sooner rather than later at physical labor, to a likely comical extreme. That's just the reality. We literally can't be as productive as these things at physical labor. We suffer now because we're often expected to operate with the efficency of machines.

This technology needs to be heavily taxed, and a UBI and revitalized safetynet implemented from its revenue. Fight for that, not continuing to have your own back broken to make the rich sociopaths richer.

[–] Boozilla 23 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Yup. Should be taking us towards a Star Trek future. Instead it will be Les Miserables with robots.

[–] Wogi 4 points 11 months ago

Hi yes I would like two tickets to Les Misérables with robots please?

[–] phoneymouse 9 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

And then, when we rebel, they’ll use the robots to kill us all, leaving the few remaining billionaires at the top without any conscious humans left aside from themselves. Then, they’ll turn on each other and fight it out until one billionaire remains, the sole surviving human on earth. Eventually, the AI kills this billionaire. The humans are dead.

[–] playereightyone 5 points 11 months ago

Upvoted for the happy ending.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

This technology needs to be heavily taxed, and a UBI and revitalized safetynet implemented from its revenue. Fight for that, not continuing to have your own back broken to make the rich sociopaths richer.

This still leaves the rich sociopaths in charge of the robots. They should be owned collectively so that everyone benefits and we don't need to rely on the government to regulate things, because it will eventually be conquered by the rich sociopaths and we'll be back to where we started.

[–] AllonzeeLV 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I agree with you ideologically.

That said, considering we've been wholly unable to reign in the capitalists thus far, that feels like an impossible task on top of an impossible task. It converts more people when something is offered as a win/win. They have all the resources and means of major media propaganda. Demanding everything with almost no power won't lead anywhere.

It's a matter of what we can do pragmatically. If the people unite around heavily taxing this tech, there's a slim hope.

[–] RIP_Cheems 2 points 11 months ago

I know which company to apply for an apprenticeship at now.