• banana_meccanica@feddit.it
    44·
    1 year ago

    Manpower will always cost less that a robot, no matter in what time, we are easily to replace and even use. Quality of work do no matter, quantity can be but still you need people to buy your shit, no manpower no economy.

    • mycorrhiza they/them
      3·
      1 year ago

      manpower will always cost less than a robot

      This is already not true. Automation has massively reduced the labor required in many industries.

      Think about how many millions of labor-hours this thing performs during its lifetime: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bagger_288

      *note the tractor for scale in the bottom left

    • Zacryon@feddit.de
      1·
      1 year ago

      Universal Robots offers robot arms for a couple of thousand bucks. Much cheaper than human labor.