That is still better for both the environment and safety than everyone going to the store seperately in their own car. (Transit or walking of course are still better yet).

There is always going to be jobs. Else, there is nobody who's buying products from Amazon. It's a self-regulating system. New jobs will be created when old ones die out. Just think of the millions of workers doing manual sewing that got replaced by mechanical sewing machines. Or all the farmers and oxes that got replaced by tractors.

It's called structural change. And I don't see why it's a bad thing. We would still be plowing our fields with ox and cart if we had denied every technological unemployment in the past.

Delivery jobs are the most ungrateful and exhausting low-paying jobs. And you want humans to keep doing them for the rest of mankind's future? Pretty grim future in my opinion.

If i see a humanoid robot delivering a package i will throw bricks at it and then pee on it, in the way a 3 year old would during a tantrum.

Bro that is so gonna get HitchBot'ed

a photo was tweeted, showing that the robot had been stripped "beyond repair" and decapitated in Philadelphia. The robot was located by some people following its progress on its website. The head was never found.

Also, like... if you wanna replace human workers, fine, just give us the UBI.

Otherwise, riots would be justified.

It's called structural change. And I don't see why it's a bad thing. We would still be plowing our fields with ox and cart if we had denied every technological unemployment in the past.

Delivery jobs are the most ungrateful and exhausting low-paying jobs. And you want humans to keep doing them for the rest of mankind's future? Pretty grim future in my opinion.

The solution is UBI

It's not that we don't want robots doing it - honestly that'd be pretty cool. It's that we want to be sure the people that are being replaced are being taken care of.

What you just described is humans causing the issue, drone delivery would absolutely solve your problem.

I imagine a post-scarcity world where all basic needs are met for everyone on the planet without question, and with minimal need for human labour, and that more as technical overseers. People would be free to work as much or as little as they want at whatever they want for their own betterment, or the betterment of the world, or do nothing at all if they want, or whatever. Is that too much to ask?

Bro that is so gonna get HitchBot'ed

a photo was tweeted, showing that the robot had been stripped "beyond repair" and decapitated in Philadelphia. The robot was located by some people following its progress on its website. The head was never found.

Also, like... if you wanna replace human workers, fine, just give us the UBI.

Otherwise, riots would be justified.

No. I don't want them to starve when they get replaced by robots, which is the current plan, apparently.

There will always be some jobs. That's no guarantee that there will be enough jobs for everyone to live modest lives on.

There will always be some jobs. That's no guarantee that there will be enough jobs for everyone to live modest lives on.

Yeah, humans regularly deliver stuff wrong on our street. There is no way robots will manage. I get packages for both by neighbours and they get mine more often than correct deliveries and one of my neighbours is a business.

They'll be vandalised almost immediately.

Wanna bet its 7000 Indian workers again?

I'm pretty sure it will be a valuable amount of copper.

Edit: Except of course I guess it won't, because they're just bullshitting to drum up invetor interest, and only three of these will ever exist.

Companies like Amazon would do anything. Except paying living wages