• Mr_Blott@feddit.uk
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    11 hours ago

    Yeah but how many are car manufacturing robots? They make a shit load of cars in S Korea

  • Eheran@lemmy.world
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    12 hours ago

    What defines a robot? Because from simple mechanisms to a fancy Kuka you have a lot of things.

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      11 hours ago

      And what defines a unit of “workforce”? If a single person is replaced by 3 robots, did one unit of workforce get replaced, or do we now have two more “workers”? What if a robot replaces 3 laborers? Compounded by your question of what counts as a robot.

      If a postal worker correcting unreadable addresses was replaced by a better OCR algorithm on a server somewhere, were they replaced by a robot or not? Are servers robots?

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        10 hours ago

        Exactly: A single worker can perform a great variety of “jobs” for their employer but a robot typically only does one thing. If you replace a human’s job with three robots it would throw these statistics way off.

        Not only that but a bunch of robots could be enhancing or expanding a human’s productivity. So a single person could be performing the work of five by using the assistance of robots.

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    14 hours ago

    Corpos will do anything besides provide proper socio economic conditions for the population.

    The role of the state is to transfer funds from taxpayer to corpos.

    No wonder nobody wants to have kids anymore lol