Amazon plans to use automation to replace more than 600,000 workers who would otherwise be hired in the United States by 2033, according to internal documents obtained by The New York Times. By that time, the company is expected to sell about twice as many goods as it does today.
Amazon’s robotics team is reportedly working toward the goal of automating 75% of its entire business. By 2027, it is expected to eliminate around 160,000 jobs in the US, saving the company an estimated $12.6 billion — equivalent to around 30 cents per item delivered.
I quit using Amazon because the third party delivery company locally is owned by a neighbor that hates me. They sided-lined 10 or 11 packages in a row or just wouldn’t delivery them from their distribution center. I’d call support and they said the company just refused to delivery. They would send a ticket to the center. And they would ignore it.
And amazon would sit on the return for months because the delivery company would re-route my packages to have a delivery date months out. So amazon would sit on the refund for months waiting for the delivery date.
One driver apologized that he had to ask my neighbors first before delivering anything to this address.
And Amazon didn’t care shit in my opinion. No privacy as my packages were opened. No nothing but some folks in another country on the phone telling me call back in a week.
And that jackass delivery owner is a rich, blackmailing, federal agent piece of shit in my opinion.
Amazon is just another criminal sycophant-making machine in my opinion.
Bring on the robots.
In theory this is awesome. Humans aren’t built for menial tasks. All repetitive monotonous tasks should be automated. However, this doesn’t fit our current economic system. Obviously all automation needs to be taxed, so that we don’t have to live this paradox where each technological advancement is a risk to our livelihood.
Yeah how exactly do they expect to sell twice as much product to a population that doesn’t have jobs/money to buy it.
Since when do we post Amazon’s investor marketing messages unfiltered here?
Isn’t this what all those artists were insisting they wanted? AI replacing rote labor instead of their “creative” jobs like producing advertising and concept art?
You forgot the part where companies suddenly and magically become benevolent and use their newly gained wealth to finance artist’s lifestyles. Presumably the ones that haven’t been replaced by AI.
This is wrong.
They aren’t going to replace workers. It is just that they will hire 600 000 less workers than they normally would because they want to use AI instead.
The people working there still have job security.
Corporate simps like you are so pathetic.
