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Warehouse automation hasn’t made workers safer — it’s just reshuffled the risk (business.gmu.edu)
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[–] Jason2357@lemmy.ca 5 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Automation tech was also never about actually reducing humans either. Going all the way back to the broad loom, it always results in the same number of workers or greater - just that productivity (profits) increase and labour becomes de-skilled and more precarious.

[–] CheeseNoodle@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago

Last time though there was a one generation gap before new jobs appeared and a bunch of people got to die of cholera in overcrowded conditions.