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In the discussion thread: Marshall Brain: We are about to see a seismic shift in the American workforce [View all]

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Mon Mar 26, 2012, 08:44 AM

CanonRay (4,766 posts)

2. Don't use robotic checkouts. Period.

It jumps profits for greedy corporations and cuts peoples jobs. Just say no, and stand in line.

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81 replies	Author	Time	Post
Marshall Brain: We are about to see a seismic shift in the American workforce [View all]	txlibdem	Mar 2012	OP
REC.	KG	Mar 2012	#1
Don't use robotic checkouts. Period.	CanonRay	Mar 2012	#2
And fabric made with automated looms is right out!! nt.	harmonicon	Mar 2012	#16
There's not much I can personally do about a lot of crrap that's going on	CanonRay	Mar 2012	#66
Refuse to buy fabric made on automated looms?	harmonicon	Mar 2012	#67
I avoid them as well mostly because.....	Swede Atlanta	Mar 2012	#20
As a grocery worker I avoid them like the plague.	Codeine	Mar 2012	#21
I also no longer bag my own groceries.	RadiationTherapy	Mar 2012	#22
The first time I went to the grocery store that had self check	tech3149	Mar 2012	#25
Exactly. I was at Home Depot one day and the self checkouts were empty. Some salesperson asked me	Sarah Ibarruri	Mar 2012	#40
That happened to me too.	progressoid	Mar 2012	#42
Sad. They're employed to help get rid of their jobs. nt	Sarah Ibarruri	Mar 2012	#43
I politely decline and tell then why. I don't check myself out to save their jobs.	Vincardog	Mar 2012	#50
I've been working in television for the last 12 years	guitar man	Mar 2012	#3
We people have the power. I wouldn't use these kinds of systems. I will not shop in this	southernyankeebelle	Mar 2012	#4
well that cheered me up on this otherwise humdrum day	onethatcares	Mar 2012	#5
No worries...	tex-wyo-dem	Mar 2012	#9
"Moore's Law" depends on cheap abundant fossil fuels	zazen	Mar 2012	#11
Butlerian Jihad	MattBaggins	Mar 2012	#6
this is news?	unblock	Mar 2012	#7
Basically why I don't use any except the self-serve gas station. That's because	sinkingfeeling	Mar 2012	#8
Here in Oregon, there is no such thing as self-serve gas. They pump. Always.	Bluenorthwest	Mar 2012	#17
I don't think I can drive the 1000 to 2000 miles to either NJ or Oregon to buy gas!	sinkingfeeling	Mar 2012	#48
NJ has them all over...	Blue_Tires	Mar 2012	#18
We have one in my town, I use it exclusively.	dixiegrrrrl	Mar 2012	#30
NJ has mandatory full service gas	tabbycat31	Mar 2012	#37
As well as some of the lowest gas prices in the land	KamaAina	Mar 2012	#74
It's monstrous. nt	Sarah Ibarruri	Mar 2012	#10
this is the realm of science fiction	tmy236	Mar 2012	#12
Who says we need to maintain this inefficient economy?	txlibdem	Mar 2012	#79
The other big problem is we're depleting our resources, and so is the rest of the world. nt	Selatius	Mar 2012	#80
Here's what I do -	Sarah Ibarruri	Mar 2012	#13
Good on you!	dixiegrrrrl	Mar 2012	#31
Good! You know, it'd be good if everyone who didn't participate in it, spoke to the store mgr and	Sarah Ibarruri	Mar 2012	#32
I looked and looked and finally found the perfect chaises..Sam Moore furniture	SoCalDem	Mar 2012	#35
Awesome!! Vera Bradley manufactures only in the U.S. - and for those who can't afford them...	Sarah Ibarruri	Mar 2012	#39
Last year I ordered a table & 6 chairs from a place in Texas	SoCalDem	Mar 2012	#47
I think we're going to have to start actually asking where they manufacture things, you know?	Sarah Ibarruri	Mar 2012	#49
Still waiting for the lower prices, too.	Brickbat	Mar 2012	#14
Me too!	Tippy	Mar 2012	#15
Don't hold your breath, those massive increaes in productitivity go to buy the CEO another	Ikonoklast	Mar 2012	#24
+1000.	HughBeaumont	Mar 2012	#28
It's time for a 32 hour work week. n/t	lumberjack_jeff	Mar 2012	#19
Hell, way less than that	eridani	Mar 2012	#64
Yeah, but he ate at McDonald's.	randome	Mar 2012	#23
A socialist view on robots...	dash_bannon	Mar 2012	#26
A refreshingly optimistic viewpoint.	randome	Mar 2012	#29
In a perfect world, this would be the case.	dotymed	Mar 2012	#34
Then why don't businesses pay their workers a fair living wage?	Hugabear	Mar 2012	#41
easy. stupidity	StarsInHerHair	Mar 2012	#62
There's going to have to be a hell of a downside	The2ndWheel	Mar 2012	#46
Nothing like that comes for free?	txlibdem	Mar 2012	#77
and customer service goes out the window	newspeak	Mar 2012	#27
yip	Johonny	Mar 2012	#53
The inevitability of robotic	dotymed	Mar 2012	#33
Some people have seen this coming for decades!	LongTomH	Mar 2012	#36
Great post. I've been calling it the black box singularity.	Spike89	Mar 2012	#72
Maker bot gets a thumbs up	txlibdem	Mar 2012	#78
I almost never put the cart back in the corral at the grocery store	XemaSab	Mar 2012	#38
It gets worse than that.	Zalatix	Mar 2012	#44
There is nothing wrong with increasing productivity	hedgehog	Mar 2012	#45
You forgot about wages.	Zalatix	Mar 2012	#63
Everybody ignores how this technology will also make our lives tons times better.	chrisa	Mar 2012	#51
What new jobs will be created? Nothing. There'll simply be fewer jobs and more unemployed.	Zalatix	Mar 2012	#52
People to maintain and create the new technology, as always	chrisa	Mar 2012	#58
Trust you? Job growth has lagged behind pop growth for OVER a decade	Zalatix	Mar 2012	#60
Because we're not creating enough jobs.	chrisa	Mar 2012	#69
And how is the Government going to create jobs?	Zalatix	Mar 2012	#70
Response	chrisa	Mar 2012	#73
Ayup, and we're going to be waiting for decades for that next big thing.	Zalatix	Mar 2012	#75
because getting out of your car to pump gas is soooo much fun	Johonny	Mar 2012	#54
The end of full-service gas had nothing to do with technology.	chrisa	Mar 2012	#59
A voice of reason! Shocking! nt.	harmonicon	Mar 2012	#68
That argument is a bit moot if the government won't even allocate funds for job training programs.	Selatius	Mar 2012	#81
Jobs for programming/installing the machines and building/implementing them.	Lex	Mar 2012	#55
All except the ATM suck something awful and I avoid them.	Edweird	Mar 2012	#56
I still ride my horsey over to the Long Branch to get my sasparilla. won't catch me dead in one of	Gabi Hayes	Mar 2012	#57
WalMart took their automated checkouts OUT...	Rosco T.	Mar 2012	#61
The PC must have generated an even more seismic shift in the 80s.	Prometheus Bound	Mar 2012	#65
UAW has been saying this for 40 years.	Octafish	Mar 2012	#71
Which is why I always ask for a clerk.	aquart	Mar 2012	#76

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