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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: 0.27s | 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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1. uniq7 ◴[09 May 25 20:42 UTC] No.43940683[source]▶
For example, people who work at Ford.

In exchange, in the long term they won't be able to afford the cars they produce anymore.