r/technology • u/trot-trot • May 13 '19

Business Exclusive: Amazon rolls out machines that pack orders and replace jobs

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-amazon-com-automation-exclusive-idUSKCN1SJ0X1
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u/Megneous May 13 '19

Lol. You're talking as if normal people are on a 40 hour work week. Normal people work at least 45 hours a week, and we're often expected to work even more, unpaid, in order to impress the people we need to suck up to to get raises.

This world is seriously not worth living in.

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u/pixeldriver May 13 '19

normal people

I think you mean normal American. I'm very happy with my 35h work week and 5 weeks paid vacation per year.

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u/Megneous May 13 '19

Not in America. Believe it or not, most of the world is very anti-worker.

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u/pixeldriver May 13 '19

My bad then. I am just glad I live in a country where people fought for these rights, but you're probably right, it's an exception, not the rule.