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The price of automation
Monday, July 27, 2020 8:39 PM
SIGNYM
I believe in solving problems, not sharing them.
Monday, July 27, 2020 9:47 PM
6IXSTRINGJACK
Monday, July 27, 2020 9:50 PM
1KIKI
Goodbye, kind world (George Monbiot) - In common with all those generations which have contemplated catastrophe, we appear to be incapable of understanding what confronts us.
Friday, July 31, 2020 1:55 PM
JEWELSTAITEFAN
Monday, August 3, 2020 3:29 AM
Monday, August 3, 2020 7:26 AM
SECOND
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
Quote:Originally posted by SIGNYM: The point is that there is no point to automation. There's no real need, no "driver" that makes automation an inevitable necessity. The only "driver" for automation is the profit motive, and automation in our current economy only benefits the elites who profit from automation. Absent that, we would be able to control and amount and pace of automation.
Monday, August 3, 2020 7:43 PM
Quote:Originally posted by JEWELSTAITEFAN: I worked at the Postal Service. The largest Union in the world is the American Postal Workers Union. I believe the 2nd and 3rd are the Mailhandlers Union and the National Association of Letter Carriers. the Service tried hard to automate their processes, and spearheaded Optical Character Recognition, etc. A clerk can sort about 750 pieces of mail per hour (3 trays, or 6 feet). The machines sorted up to 43,000 per hour, and 38,000 was substandard. The APWU contract had restrictions on whether the Service could purchase more machines. The Service was required to show that all costs of the machine (parts, maintenance, operation, machine purchase cost, etc) would be less than 80% or the costs of the manual labor. So what was the Union's solution when the Service wanted more production from the clerks? They told the clerks to SLOW DOWN. Thus making the formula even easier to replace everybody with machines.
Wednesday, August 12, 2020 8:19 AM
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