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Giant Online Store Working 1 million Robot, Threatened Man

Each robot is a knot in a complex network that allows companies to accelerate delivery time and press operational costs.

Giant Online Store Working 1 million Robot, Threatened Man

The Amazon has officially had over 1 million robot fleets, composed of ranks of mechanical arms, roomba-like cargo robots, and giant sorting machines.

Every robot allows the company to accelerate shipping time and press operational costs. However, for over 1.5 million full-time workers and part-time workers who depend on the Amazon, this robot army is a growing threat.

As revealed by business professor George Mason University, Brad Greenwood, robot-robot warehouse Amazon not only helped the company cut labor costs, but literally urging people out of jobs in corporate facilities.

"Over the last 100 years, most of the automation we've seen is usually going far away from the workers. We take such high-risk tasks from the workers, and do it in ways that are not physically adjacent," clearly Greenwood.

"But the development of the Amazon's fleet completely changed the dynamic for two reasons, and first, it was within a close distance of physical and second, it had the ability to dictate before work," the actionable seconds of Futurism.

These changes are very profitable for the Amazon. Robots help reduce obstacles in all of the vast logistics of companies, increase speed, and strengthen profit.

And by letting the robot "dictate tempo" work, the Amazon also reduces its dependence on human labor, which ultimately weakens the working position of both individually and in the potential for collective union negotiations.

Outside the warehouse area, Amazon robots are also the source of sensational publicity, where extraordinary achievements in automation cover the risk of injury at work. It's become a very lucrative shield for the Amazon, given the conditions in the company facility seem to be increasingly dangerous as robots get thrown into the area.

"The Amazon likes to talk about the new robots because they don't want to talk about tens of thousands of Amazon workers who get injured every year due to Amazon obsession in maximizing the speed and minimizing the cost," the cetus of the coalition union of the Strategic Organizing Center, Joan Moriarty.

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