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The Self-Checkout Nightmare May Finally Be Ending (gizmodo.com)

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

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The Self-Checkout Nightmare May Finally Be Ending::Self-checkout is a failed experiment, and a growing number of stores are backpedaling on these cursed machines.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

The #1 argument against any sort of automation is that it replaced workers and concentrates wealth for the few; increasing wealth inequality.

If we lived in a society with strong safeguards, redistribution of wealth, and economic mobility, most of the people who currently oppose automation would not.

I say this as someone who automates jobs.