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Andyb1000 t1_j28snat wrote

Reply to comment by KSRandom195 in Saudis take control of US augmented reality company Magic Leap by MicroSofty88

For me it’s as simple as charging robots the same income tax as an employee. In my work, we account 40% additional salary for “on costs”. These are typically the wrapper that goes around managing employee; employee benefits, welfare, pensions, continual professional development and professional services like HR to deal with employee issues.

Any business that goes all in on automation is already making a 40% cost saving versus us bags of mostly water.

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Versability t1_j28x5xq wrote

Amazon and Walmart are the two companies with the most employees in the entire world as far as I’m aware. It’s a pretty large margin too, as nobody but these two companies employs over 1 million people.

If automation replaced human workers, wouldn’t both of these companies have fewer workers than everybody else instead of more?

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123hoe t1_j290cni wrote

They deliver with drones and some of the warehouses already are replacing sorters with robots Amazon could fully autonomize tomorrow if the govt relaxed fsd requirements and hopefully give ubi or nationalized necessities

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Versability t1_j296rwi wrote

Lmao There’s no regulation stopping Amazon from being fully automated. What is this FSD you speak of?

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123hoe t1_j2971h6 wrote

Full self driving. Which there is regulation against and which driving aka transporting the products is a huge part of there buisness. Fuck is you talking about

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TheAmateurletariat t1_j298v6p wrote

Afraid it's not that simple since robots are not the same as humans 1:1. This would be easy to circumvent by creating 1 "robot" that could do the work of 10 people.

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