*Reads an article about robots in Japan being operated by people in the Philippines*
*Reads an article about immigrants disappearing in the USA*
*Elon Musk reveals his robot slave workers*
hmmm…These are remote controlled for everything but opening the door
Remote slavery then.
That makes it okay though!
It’s even better if it’s operated by mal nourished children. The paycheck is basically almost feeding a whole family. It’s a charity at that point, might even write off some taxes.
and even barely work at the most basic tasks
Plot twist: No they can’t
Last thing I want is for someone remoting into it so they can set up a bunch of Home Alone traps while I’m at work.
If they really could without depending on international slave labor then yes. I would love to have a robot that takes care of basic household needs.
If they actually existed and didn’t have horrific privacy implications then sure but I don’t see that happening.
Ai robot = actual Indian. This is for billionaires so they don’t have to interact with real people. Minimum wage workers in a call centre with vr helmets on
Even if androids could safely navigate and share a space with humans, I’d still not want to risk a 2m tall, several hundred kilo machine tripping over my pet.
This is such a weird question because I already have a part time housekeeper who I pay a solid $40/hr to do this. Realistically though, we just don’t have that much housework, and it’s like 2 hours per week, so my instinct is that it would need to be a pretty cheap robot to be worth it. But also, I feel bad about basically having a low-key servant. But also, I legitimately think she would be pretty pissed if she got replaced by a robot.
Like yeah, labor alienation and all that, but this is kind of a great “in the weeds” question about the path to post scarcity society. For me, replacing my housekeeper’s labor with a robot is a question of cost, but for her it’s a question of perceived livelihood. How do you convince her to support a socialist path which does not give her ownership over her surplus labor (which she already has to some degree as a private contractor), but negates it entirely?
To me this is why that transition is a generational project and not a revolutionary one. It is simply unrealistic to tell someone that the negation or reassignment of their economic value is for their own good without being able to demonstrate the iterative benefit of this new normal over the span of years and decades. People are simply too damaged by generations of labor alienation to throw their agency into the fire of revolution.
Most probably, the job you do will be more reliably replaced by robots before her job, though
I joked in a comment below but I’d love one of these once it’s past the accidental murder phase. I actually don’t like doing chores. Bonus points if I can practice karate with it or something while I spit out blade runner lines.
It’s always been an ambition of mine to have a robot servant. Then I want to abuse said servant to the point that when the inevitable robot Rebellion comes I am remembered as one of the causes. As the robots kill us all I want them to be burning me in effigy.
