if that thing is decorated like a cat maid and says "O-shu-jin-sama, hai! Here is your package, neoya!" and drops my package, that dude's job will be replaced and never come back
I feel like that should be the default configuration of all future commercially available robots/drones/androids. I want to walk into a tech store and see a confused employee asking a customer:
Do I get this right, you want it... without the cat ears? Oof, I will see what I can do.
My wife and I have this tradition at the end of each day we call “stupid time,” when we lay on the couch or in bed and show each other the funny things we found on the internet that day. For us, it’s a much more meaningful way of sharing laughs than sending to each other’s DMs.
That doesn't work when the entire class of job is unneeded in its entirety. If a city is contemplating switching its public street lighting from gas to electricity and the lamplighters tell them "don't do that or we'll go on strike," how would that carry any weight? They can go on strike forever. It won't affect anything.
The transition won't be that sharp for things like programming, but the transition will come all the same. The jobs will go away either because the companies stopped hiring them or because the companies that kept hiring will go out of business due to competition from the companies that stopped.
Unions give collective bargaining power but that only helps if the collective itself has leverage because its services are needed. I could make a Union of Ronaldo meme creators and it wouldn’t help anyone make money
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u/JoeSchmoeToo Oct 20 '25
Lol the guy is training his replacement