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tclambert

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15. When they can make all their deliveries with robots and self-driving trucks, they'll lay off everybody

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

Tue Oct 28, 2025, 11:37 PM

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And when Walmart can restock their shelves with robots, that will strike hundreds of thousands more jobs off the list.

We face a future in which people can no longer trade labor for money. The machines will be able to do it ALL. And it looks like we will blindly stumble into that future with no advance planning.

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When they can make all their deliveries with robots and self-driving trucks, they'll lay off everybody tclambert Tuesday #15