At Amazon’s Greenwood warehouse, humans and robots work side by side

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One thought on “At Amazon’s Greenwood warehouse, humans and robots work side by side

  1. The tax burden that is imposed on human workers should be shifted to the AI robots that are replacing human workers ! The tax burden that was being paid by the human workers that was funding our social safety network would then be restored with the taxes imposed on the technology that replaced human workers . That would increase funding to Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid . That would help even up the cost advantage corporations get by replacing human workers with robots.

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