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Robot packers and AI cameras: UK retail embraces automation to cut staff costs
(www.theguardian.com)
this post was submitted on 21 Jan 2025
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Of course they do. This was always the trajectory.
The idea of everyone being able to have a job is rapidly coming to an end.
The increased competition for the remaining work is going to drive wages and salaries down.
All of the wealth generated by the automation will end up hyper concentrated amongst the new aristocracy of capitalist conglomerate owners.
We need a new economic system yesterday if we have any hope of avoiding this particular flavour of dystopia
No UBI is not the solution, it's a last resort to be used to quell violent revolution when three quarters of people can't afford to exist.
And no, the luddite approach won't work here either, Pandora's box was opened long ago