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OC375

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4. Just a matter of time before they come for your job.

Reply to Omaha Steve (Original post)

Sat Jul 4, 2026, 04:19 PM

Saturday

Creative type? Work with your hands? Unique talent amongst everyone else in the world? You can still be copied.

People will accept crappy analogues of what you bring to the table if it's cheaper, faster or better for them in some way. Doesn't have to be all three either to be worthwhile.

We're going to get what we've been bitching about since the dawn of time... more free time, and less work.

We'll need to find whole new way to value life, because technology is making it cheaper by the day.

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Major Union Livid After 1,000 Factory Workers Were Replaced With 50 Robots [View all] Omaha Steve Saturday OP

Where do the workers go? Norrrm Saturday #1

And then who buys these expensive new EVs? Not the laid-off workers. erronis Saturday #8

If people had been buying them in enough numbers, there might not have been any layoffs to begin with. MichMan Saturday #14

50 "cobots" couldn't replace 1000 people MichMan Saturday #2

1,000 workers that can ACTUALLY afford what is built at that plant shit canned Bengus81 Saturday #3

This orangecrush Saturday #5

They just need the government to afford the vehicles. Or at least print the money for it. OC375 Saturday #6

China is not going to buy US-made EVs. They are making better models at one-third the price. erronis Saturday #9

Not yet. Things can change. OC375 Saturday #10

The Hamtramck GM plant makes full size large EV pickups MichMan Yesterday #17

So it's at least largely hyperbole. Igel 4 hrs ago #20

Just a matter of time before they come for your job. OC375 Saturday #4

I predict GM will have to backtrack on this iemanja Saturday #7

It depends on how strong the union's contract is. LudwigPastorius Saturday #16

as a side note, transient fruit/veg pickers will only be necessary until---- gfwzig Saturday #11

So the consumer will now pay less...? Grins Saturday #12

GM bromeando Saturday #13

GM Shuts Factory Zero, Lays Off 1,300 Workers as $7.6B EV Losses Mount and Gas Trucks Run at Full Throttle MichMan Saturday #15

GM Jughead 19 hrs ago #18

Striking is the best leverage labor's got, snot 17 hrs ago #19