[polarix]

I hope courts worldwide continue to punish Amazon for these kinds of things. They need to change the calculus — to ensure that the total operational cost of hiring people to do these terrible jobs is much higher than using robots.

[lukan]

" to ensure that the total operational cost of hiring people to do these terrible jobs is much higher than using robots."

He was not crushed by machinery or anything:

"Dariusz worked so hard. His job used to be done by a few people during a shift, but then they made him do all that work alone, pushing around trolleys with heavy boxes."

He was simply pushed working too hard. So a robot doing the job would have been one solution - the other simply an extra human helping, or switching tasks, to something less physically demanding.

[polarix]

True! There might be other solutions, like having management treat people as they themselves would want to be treated. That kind of thing just sounds fairly unrealistic.

[Geisterde]

Dont worry, that calculus is changing day by day regardless. In the second chapter people will be complaining that robots put them out of work.

[fennecfoxy]

Well, robots _will_ put people out of work; I am wholeheartedly for this.

However the difference, is that in the utopia inside my head, we start taxing the rich/corporations and provide UBI to people, our goal should be to mechanise/automate everyone out of jobs where possible and allow them to do whatever they want to with their lives.

The sad truth of the world is smart people invented a machine that can make 10,000 widgets per hour instead of 1 per hour by hand, but did that mean the price of widgets went down? No, and all of the benefits of this machine were reaped solely by a bunch of parasites in suits and ties, who contribute nothing to the world.

[einpoklum]

> continue to punish Amazon for these kinds of things.

Amazon is not punished. That woman was only reinstated in her rock-bottom-wage, back-breaking/RSI-inducing Amazon job.

If she'd have gotten some large sum of money as compensation, or if the court had ordered Amazon to enter good-faith negotiations with the union, or accept some of its demands, or to cease warehouse operations temporary etc. - that would have been punishment.

[graphe]

Overall it seems that American corporate has become embedded in overseas environments and has been fighting other cultures. Tesla in Scandinavia has a more public appearing problem.