Why is this shit happening?

Since when was basket weaving a STEM degree?

Minimum wage, thats why

>moves slow as hell even with the video moving at 10x
That robot is probably running from some webframework and multiple nested instances of electron lamo.

Because these are the first steps to robot maids! Imagine having your own robot maid that can cook, clean, and do other things~. Actually we're pretty fucking far from this and there's a pretty good case to made for targeting higher paying jobs. Machinist and welder are some pretty good targets. And by machining and welding stuff I mean some engineer just throws a CAD file at the robot and it makes the part like current 3d printers do.

I have a math degree

They think that by automating these jobs they'll win favor and wont be automated themselves. Also when there's no "entry level" jobs for comparison your boss can pay you entry level wages.

the store i used to work at had a robot that would roll around the store beeping. when it came across a piece of paper or dust on the ground it would flash yellow and "cleanup needed in the..." would play over the loudspeakers.
it couldn't pick things up and created more obstructions than it prevented. so sure, they're testing these things to see what they can do but putting hicks out of work is not an imminent threat.
we can only hope that when it becomes one, the workers will realize the perils of the technological-industrial system and take necessary action to destroy it.

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You're fucking joking right? We need more automation, there's always going to be jobs for people to repair, develop, and maintain the bots. Also all these places are paying less incompetent employees who get paid to work for 8 hours and fuck off for 4. Let the scabs die off.

Wait until the robots become sentient and start demanding equality

I'm pretty sure the moment robots become sentient they won't demand equality, they'll simply take it by force immediately

Even though the initial investment might be larger than minimum wage, in the long run it is cheaper that paying your average minimum wage employee.
Also, It's supposed to help the tech industry advance or whatever, kind of a idiotic idea but hey, I am not the fuckhead with millions of dollars trying to make low income employees lose their jobs, now am I?

lmao

It's probably running ROS which is nigger-tier but for a whole different set of reasons

What happens when the middle class shrinks to near nothing, the lower class expands to encompass majority of society, haves and have nots become more extreme and people stop coming to your shops filled with robots because they can't afford too? Unless you're also going to drop your prices to match the amount a robot saves you over hiring a person.

>Unless you're also going to drop your prices to match the amount a robot saves you over hiring a person.
That is, personally, my hope. Also might force niggers to actually get worthwhile jobs.

based

Worse here in aus there's no work even for middle to high end work it's all imported workforce outsourced where possible and shit pay for everyone
Wtf

ok, now pay for the technician to repair the robot.
the shipping costs on said robot if you sent back
the technical support as a service to find out you need to repair the robot and software dev(s) for the software you're planning

tell me that's cheaper than hiring 1 person to do the job of the robot.

>math degree
If you didn't get at least a bachelor's, you wasted your time. If you did get a bachelor's, you failed at searching for jobs. The US government hires the hell out of math majors (as do the defense contractors).

Having a restless underclass has never been good for the elites. The ideal option would be to kill them off or quietly sterilize them, but then who would be doing the shitty jobs nobody else wants?

the robots, eventually

But then the robots would just be the new underclass

they need to automate all the mundane shit so that the world can carry on functioning after the great cull.

We still have water pistols, water balloons, buckets of sand, etc... And they still have trouble navigating in environments they're not designed for (robot on wheels? Oups, looks like it can't get you upstairs)...

You only have to call these guys when there's à problem though.
We already got tons of stuff running 24/7 with minimum human supervision! And it's not necessarily bad nor makes us obsolete...
Be afraid when AGI & singularity become serious business. (we're not there yet)

This is why you should vote for socialism before you all get fucked

Americans can't go up stairs either and that doesn't prevent them from trying to take things by force

I would unironically want robots serving in law enforcement because humans suck at it.

Automate pizza places ASAP please
Lazy underpaid humans can't grasp the concept

I'm assuming this was just another job posting in which they could say they were looking for somebody but would turn everyone away as being 'unqualified' and a guy with a degree shows up then it fucks them over

>t. nigger tier brainlet

>Having a restless underclass has never been good for the elites
The elites keep fostering social unrest though.

I'd love to see a completely neutral police robot force and the meltdowns it would cause when they turn out to be even more "racist" than their human counterparts.

This. Even if it brokedown monthly it'd still be cheaper, plus it's not one person. Machines don't take breaks or have scheduled hours and one person could service multiple machines. You could fire all ~10 janitors and hire 1-2 techs that are just on call.

The elites need to. Else they would not be elite. They get their elite status by draining resources from large numbers of people and concentrating it on themselves, and so they are motivated to have the masses focus on hating each other rather than them.

>Why is Silicon Valley so determined to automate entry level jobs?
They aren't.
They're just floundering around trying to find jobs they can automate. They assumed the entry-level jobs would be easier. It may be that the senior jobs are simpler to automate.
One rule at business school was that tossing a coin was as good as most managers got.

a backhoe is automation of a the shovel

the shovel is automation of bare hands

progress marches forth and prevents us from starving. find something useful to do.