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Unitree's new G1 humanoid robot is priced at only $16,000, and looks like the type of humanoid robot that could sell in the tens of millions. (newatlas.com)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] -3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Obviously someone that hasn't spent much time in a factory and don't know what they are talking about.

Sure you got to go through all the safety requirements but that's not a skill.

I've seen job were people load material into a machine and people box finished good, or people destroying WIP, or people moving material, or picking up WIP.

You are just confidently incorrect. A skilled job is something where you are trained and/or have experience in and it takes a long time to teach and learn. Unskilled is were you can grab people from the street and get them working within a day.

Surely you can see why based on supply and demand and cost of training both for the person and the business that unskilled pays less. Why should they be paid the sane as skilled work? It doesn't make sense.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Yes, when you dismiss everything these jobs require as "not skills" then anything can be unskilled labour. Yeah of course working safely in an industrial environment isn't a skill, even babies can do it, that's why conservatives everywhere are trying to bring back child labour!

[–] [email protected] -2 points 7 months ago

Well if you change the definitions of things then anything can mean anything.

I don't know what you expect. The fundamental reason unskilled labour is paid less is because basically anyone can do it. You can call it whatever you want but it won't pay the same amount as skilled labour, or whatever you want to call that.