Semi-retired professor Carolyn Marvin became a local celebrity facing down Philadelphia’s growing robot delivery army: ‘It’s my first amendment right to protest’
I’m sorry but a robot box delivering my food doesn’t make it “slop,” this isn’t like AI at all. The food isn’t worse, or even colder, it’s just being delivered by a robot instead of an underpaid guy on a bike or in a car. Why are we fighting to maintain an extremely exploitative gig economy and tipping culture at the same time? I thought both were bad? I don’t get it.
Nah actually people like you need to take a walk outside lmao in my opinion. These things suck for foot traffic and take jobs from people who often have no other means of survival at all. They are made by weird tech guys who design them for optimizing profit over everything else which should NOT be the case for what is a vehicle in a street
I literally walk to work every day in an area with a ton of them, they’re less in the way than the average moron abruptly stopping in front of me because they’re more into their phone call than paying attention to the world around them lol.
Anyone i have seen using the word “luddite” so far has proved themselves to be morons of the highest order. They always conflate rejection of technology to fighting to be replaced by our capitalist overlords
The Luddites were the good guys, by the way. They were labor activists fighting back against mass-unemployment in a world that didn’t care what happened to workers who lost their livelihood.
The government response was to make “machine breaking” a capital crime so that they could execute labor activists who dared take direct action.
Declaring yourself anti-Luddite is just taking the side of the capitalists who would murder workers to protect the machines. That’s not a wise side to be taking today if you’re not a billionaire.
A Luddite is someone who opposes new technology, automation, or the modern information age.
I’m aware of the history and it’s a very apt parallel. At the same time it strikes me as rather futile and misguided to push against progress to save shitty jobs. Worker protections have improved over the 200 years since then, we just need to make sure society keeps moving in the right direction for everyone.
We havnt solved world hunger, income inequality, climate change or so many other human social issues… but yes, a robot to deliever food to the wealthiest folks is going to be the future and help everyone!
You’re right, a person doing that job will totally fill the income inequality gap. That’s the real future of worker emancipation. Up by the bootstraps, one McDonald’s order at a time!
That’s not new. Look at any modern assembly line - should we focus on getting more humans back in there so they can do mind-numbing work eight hours a day?
We obviously need to put a lot of effort into making society work for everyone. But sticking your head in the sand and refusing progress is counterproductive.
We should focus on planning the economy, and until we can do that, we need to let people keep their jobs.
The weavers had to be suppressed with the military when the autolooms came for their jobs, now imagine if that’s every job in every sector in every country all at the same time. There is a tipping point where job losses outpace job creation, and then people start picking up guns.
Dumb fucks like you love to just roll over and let these Big Brother drones eventually track everyone’s movements via facial recognition and use the info to throw dissenters into camps
But the ubereats guy is whizzing along footpaths as quick as he dares on an electric bike because hes gotta get back to make more deliveries to survive.
I live in a tiny town where that doesnt happen, but whenever I go into my local Big City I’m always dodging them, terrified.
Except they don’t block the road. I live and work in an area with a ton of these things all the time. They usually are annoyingly cautious not to block the road, leading to them sometimes sitting at crosswalks for several cycles. That’s just not true. They don’t even really block the sidewalks even though there are a ton of them.
I’m sorry but a robot box delivering my food doesn’t make it “slop,” this isn’t like AI at all. The food isn’t worse, or even colder, it’s just being delivered by a robot instead of an underpaid guy on a bike or in a car. Why are we fighting to maintain an extremely exploitative gig economy and tipping culture at the same time? I thought both were bad? I don’t get it.
Nah actually people like you need to take a walk outside lmao in my opinion. These things suck for foot traffic and take jobs from people who often have no other means of survival at all. They are made by weird tech guys who design them for optimizing profit over everything else which should NOT be the case for what is a vehicle in a street
I literally walk to work every day in an area with a ton of them, they’re less in the way than the average moron abruptly stopping in front of me because they’re more into their phone call than paying attention to the world around them lol.
“Slop” has been slang for food for longer than it has been slang for AI content. You’re deliberately misinterpreting the headline.
“Slop bowls” is deliberately invoking the parallel. Nobody uses the term “slop bowl.”
The proper solution is to properly pay the delivery person. You shouldn’t replace them with a clanker that doubles as a surveillance drone
Serious luddite vibes. These jobs will be lost to automation like so many before them, and we’ll be better off for it.
Anyone i have seen using the word “luddite” so far has proved themselves to be morons of the highest order. They always conflate rejection of technology to fighting to be replaced by our capitalist overlords
The Luddites were the good guys, by the way. They were labor activists fighting back against mass-unemployment in a world that didn’t care what happened to workers who lost their livelihood.
The government response was to make “machine breaking” a capital crime so that they could execute labor activists who dared take direct action.
Declaring yourself anti-Luddite is just taking the side of the capitalists who would murder workers to protect the machines. That’s not a wise side to be taking today if you’re not a billionaire.
Luddite
/ˈlʌdʌɪt/
A Luddite is someone who opposes new technology, automation, or the modern information age.
I’m aware of the history and it’s a very apt parallel. At the same time it strikes me as rather futile and misguided to push against progress to save shitty jobs. Worker protections have improved over the 200 years since then, we just need to make sure society keeps moving in the right direction for everyone.
We havnt solved world hunger, income inequality, climate change or so many other human social issues… but yes, a robot to deliever food to the wealthiest folks is going to be the future and help everyone!
You’re right, a person doing that job will totally fill the income inequality gap. That’s the real future of worker emancipation. Up by the bootstraps, one McDonald’s order at a time!
Then they won’t have a job and no one is hiring. Without a planned economy, people are fucked over by automation.
That’s not new. Look at any modern assembly line - should we focus on getting more humans back in there so they can do mind-numbing work eight hours a day?
We obviously need to put a lot of effort into making society work for everyone. But sticking your head in the sand and refusing progress is counterproductive.
We should focus on planning the economy, and until we can do that, we need to let people keep their jobs.
The weavers had to be suppressed with the military when the autolooms came for their jobs, now imagine if that’s every job in every sector in every country all at the same time. There is a tipping point where job losses outpace job creation, and then people start picking up guns.
Found the cog-sucker.
Dumb fucks like you love to just roll over and let these Big Brother drones eventually track everyone’s movements via facial recognition and use the info to throw dissenters into camps
Sure, the delivery bots are the lynchpin in our dystopian surveillance future. If only we could stop them, then nothing else would track us.
For one it’s a big box blocking the road for people and there will not be few of them.
But the ubereats guy is whizzing along footpaths as quick as he dares on an electric bike because hes gotta get back to make more deliveries to survive.
I live in a tiny town where that doesnt happen, but whenever I go into my local Big City I’m always dodging them, terrified.
Except they don’t block the road. I live and work in an area with a ton of these things all the time. They usually are annoyingly cautious not to block the road, leading to them sometimes sitting at crosswalks for several cycles. That’s just not true. They don’t even really block the sidewalks even though there are a ton of them.