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[–] [email protected] 78 points 1 month ago (4 children)

no, sorry. we shouldnt lament jobs replaced by automation/easier to use systems. we should be pissed that billionares like the waltons arent taxed at 100%, and that their lowest paid employee makes thousand of times less than the management.

otehrwise youre just a buggy-whip maker shouting into the darkness

[–] cm0002 18 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Yup, we should be demanding things like UBI, good gov provided housing and healthcare funded by proper taxing of the rich.

Not futily fighting against progress, if the job can be automated well and efficiently then the job shouldn't exist anymore.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

UBI is nice but is a bandaid solution that doesnt really address the problem. We should be looking into extinguishing billionaires as a class.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Woah calm down Lucifer! You need steady hands to work the guillotine.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Large monopsonic companies like Walmart and Amazon already do central planning. They should simply be nationalized and run for public benefit and their owners should be brought up on charges.

[–] madcaesar 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Easier to use? That shit is not easier, it's exactly what the cashier does, but now you are doing it for free.

If it was a system where you dump your shit and it totals it for you, that would be easier.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Thank you! I hate doing self checkout unless i have like 2 or 3 things. Thats how it even started anyways, most shops had them as express lanes for shoppers with just a couple things to buy. If i have more than one bag's worth of groceries I'm going to let someone else who is paid to scan and bag do it for me.

[–] LordKitsuna 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

When I'm shopping I want to get my stuff, and get out, even when I buy a lot of stuff. I do that faster than waiting in line for a register on average. Plus then i don't have to talk to someone which is nice.

There should be both. Self check and a few clerks. Let people choose.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

If all the lanes were staffed, I bet it would be faster to not do self checkout.

Also, its not so bad to talk to someone? Also also, you don't actually have to talk to them trust me they don't care. You don't even have to make eye contact.

[–] LordKitsuna 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I hate corporations in general for their greed but even I understand why you can't have all Lanes manned. Because I have worked retail and while there are definitely some busy hours Where things get crazy, the majority of the day would be dead and those people would have nothing to do.

This is why both is good, have 2-3 (for most larger stores) cashier lanes open and two sets of 4 (so 8) self checks open. Let people choose their presence

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The stores near me never staff more than 3 lanes, even at peak times...

[–] LordKitsuna 1 points 1 month ago

I have the exact opposite problem of the complaint in the post, the store near me will have only a single manual register open while there is a line of like five or six people that literally have maybe a handful of items all just waiting and they have a self-checkout area but they never fucking open it unless someone complains. And they act like you insulted their entire family lineage when they begrudgingly open it

[–] [email protected] 41 points 1 month ago (3 children)

does nobody else notice this is absolutely and obviously an ai generated image?

not to say that wal-mart is helping anyone at all. but this was clearly designed to spark outrage.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Damn, they got me good.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Is it AI generated, though? AI generated images usually mangle letters pretty badly and everything seems to be legible here.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Look at the products or the text in the background. I thought the text was photoshopped but turns out it was generated as well.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

So they are, statement withdrawn. I wasn't paying that much attention to the signs in the background and sure enough, the rightmost sign's M and R look a bit off and the "Investing in" part is completely scrambled.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 month ago

This image is AI generated. Look closely at the smaller text, it's all mangled.

[–] atrielienz 18 points 1 month ago

Not gonna lie, I'd rather not have to have a checker make minimum wage and be on food stamps.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Technically they’re not wrong. Someone at walmart has to source and buy the self scanners. 🤷‍♂️

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Walmart: "Yeah sorry, not that job. Procurement pays too well."

[–] Mojave 6 points 1 month ago

With the money Walmarts saves by hiring less clerks, they could pass part of those savings onto you as a customer and have cheaper products!

But they instead increase prices anyway. Kill the Walton family.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

Ah yes the 5can & go machine

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

Those don't take away that many jobs, at least not here in Germany. There is still someone standing next to them whenever they are open (on busy times 2 people) and shelves aren't stocking themselves.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago
[–] Macaroni_ninja 4 points 1 month ago

Weird place to store those hula hoops

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Instead of jobs for a select few "minimum wage slaves," Walmart has created work for every single customer. Very egalitarian.