Warehouse automation hasn’t made workers safer — it’s just reshuffled the risk
Warehouse automation hasn’t made workers safer — it’s just reshuffled the risk
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Warehouse automation hasn’t made workers safer — it’s just reshuffled the risk
cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/36488686
Automation was never about safety in the first place.
Exactly. Humans are wasteful and expensive. One day, capitalists will realize if they don’t hire any humans, nobody but the capitalists will have money to buy anything.
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.
Iwnt that the whole idea?