Amazon plans to use automation to replace more than 600,000 workers who would otherwise be hired in the United States by 2033, according to internal documents obtained by The New York Times. By that time, the company is expected to sell about twice as many goods as it does today.
Amazon’s robotics team is reportedly working toward the goal of automating 75% of its entire business. By 2027, it is expected to eliminate around 160,000 jobs in the US, saving the company an estimated $12.6 billion — equivalent to around 30 cents per item delivered.
Let’s replace their customers with not-customers.
Shame everything you do on the internet supports them through AWS though. Maybe they need more outages to drive those customers away.
Into the arms of the one or two competitors they have? We are living in a time of virtual monopoly, everything they warned us about with communism has come to pass- we are going to see bread lines before long. Government and industry is perfectly intermingled, there is nowhere else to go, the free market was always a complete and blatant lie, no matter where you turn, you will only be propping up the system stomping your face.
Probably into the arms of running colocated servers of their own. A lot of the promised cost savings of cloud infrastructure has not born out in practice.
It’s insane to me that you also get charged for pulling your data out. And it’s not cheap.