Yuritopiaposadism [none/use name]@hexbear.net to technology@hexbear.netEnglish · 15 days ago"The point of automation is ultimately to replace workers, who need to be paid a regular wage, with robots, which do not."hexbear.netimagemessage-square15fedilinkarrow-up1108file-textcross-posted to: sino@hexbear.net
arrow-up1108image"The point of automation is ultimately to replace workers, who need to be paid a regular wage, with robots, which do not."hexbear.netYuritopiaposadism [none/use name]@hexbear.net to technology@hexbear.netEnglish · 15 days agomessage-square15fedilinkfile-textcross-posted to: sino@hexbear.net
https://archive.is/2026.05.11-180744/https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2026/05/11/china-wants-more-robots-but-not-fewer-workers
minus-squarelil_tank [any, he/him]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up19·14 days ago a human-first approach to automation Couldn’t think of a bigger endorsement, what’s scary is that given it’s from The “Economist” it was probably supposed to sound like a bad thing.
minus-squareSocialistVibes01@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·14 days ago a human-first approach to automation But at what cost? /s
Couldn’t think of a bigger endorsement, what’s scary is that given it’s from The “Economist” it was probably supposed to sound like a bad thing.
But at what cost? /s