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Amazon's Vulcan Robots Now Stow Items Faster Than Humans

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209 points Luc | 9 comments | 09 May 25 11:18 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source | bottom
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thisisnotauser ◴[09 May 25 16:14 UTC] No.43938444[source]▶
Henry Ford famously wanted his workers to be able to afford his cars. When Bezos replaces everyone with robots, who will be left to buy his junk?
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kajumix ◴[09 May 25 16:47 UTC] No.43938810[source]▶
Once he replaces everyone with robots, and all the factories do the same, people will get stuff at home for watching ads.
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1. iamtheworstdev ◴[09 May 25 16:49 UTC] No.43938829[source]▶
but ads exist to convince people to buy things. if people can't afford to buy things, why would you need ads?
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2. entropicdrifter ◴[09 May 25 16:52 UTC] No.43938863[source]▶
So they can buy things with their ad-watching money.
3. kajumix ◴[09 May 25 16:53 UTC] No.43938880[source]▶
you may not need to buy a box of cereal or a vacuum cleaner, but maybe a flight to moon, or a humanoid companion? products move up a level
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4. hattmall ◴[09 May 25 17:15 UTC] No.43939090[source]▶
Products will become advertisements themselves. It could be cheaper and more effective to send everyone a box of Tesla Tasty-Electrons cereal than TV or Social media and slots.

Casinos provide free drinks, cartels offer free prostitutes, it's not unprecedented.

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5. robertlagrant ◴[09 May 25 17:34 UTC] No.43939261[source]▶
> Casinos provide free drinks

Because people will spend money. The premise here is no-one has money, but somehow adverts exist.

6. pixl97 ◴[09 May 25 17:55 UTC] No.43939434[source]▶
And what labor are you going to be doing to afford those upleveled products?
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7. mrweasel ◴[09 May 25 18:46 UTC] No.43939864[source]▶
Maybe we pay people a small fee to watch ads?
8. kajumix ◴[09 May 25 21:45 UTC] No.43941194{3}[source]▶
it's a good question. what would true abundance look like? I can't wait to find out
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9. pixl97 ◴[10 May 25 18:40 UTC] No.43947858{4}[source]▶
>what would true abundance look like

If we don't solve greed first, it looks like one guy with a quadrillion dollars and everyone else starving/dead.