Their plans are separate, but what is significant is that they are just two companies, and the raw numbers can be so huge.
Amazon expects to soon save $10 billion a year replacing humans with robots. Amazon currently employs 1.1 million in the US. If we take the average cost of each as $50K - that’s 200,000 jobs. Figure is talking about 100,000 robots.
For now, this issue is still relatively politically muted. But for how much longer?
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There is a tsunami coming and not many people can see it. The worse part, is the people in charge are not the ones to roll out UBI. In fact, they are more likely to remove benefits.
The robots arnt free to finance or operate, so the number of workers on the chopping block is probably even more.
