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Amazon's Vulcan Robots Now Stow Items Faster Than Humans

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209 points Luc | 1 comments | 09 May 25 11:18 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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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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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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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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1. 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.