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In reply to the discussion: Wendy's is replacing its lowest-paid workers with robots [View all]Locut0s
(6,154 posts)During the industrial revolution many many of the jobs that people did were dangerous, back breaking and poorly paid. Indeed basically slave labour. Child labour was heavily utilised.
Even if they had been properly compensated the jobs would still have been hell. Most of those jobs were automated away. The immediate results was not good. People were thrown out of work. Lost a livelihood. Long term though automation has removed a hell of a lot of the drudge work that used to constitute a majority of people's lives. A lot of those jobs have been replaced with service industry and tech jobs that didn't exist before.
Now more of those jobs at the lower end are being automated. Again the immediate results is not good. I feel that if companies are to do this, they owe said employees retraining, the offer of better jobs. I know they don't give a flying fuck about the people though so I know that will not happen. Which is why I too hate to see this. People suffer. But long term over the span of decades, generations, I see it not only as inevitable but usually it has been a net positive for society.
The question should be how do we do this humanely.