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FedEx and UPS—two of America’s biggest employers—have been publicly pushing tax cuts as job creators even as they plan to spend hundreds of millions of dollars for a coming wave of automation at their distribution centers and along their delivery lines, corporate documents show.
Neither company has said what effect their automation plans may have on their job numbers, but both FedEx and UPS are also actively developing new technology designed to expand automation, according to patent applications reviewed by TYT. One UPS executive told Wall Street analysts new automation initiatives currently being planned will be coming online as late as 2020.
When's that wealth trickling down?
If Corporations like FedEx wish to invest in automation to maximize profit and productivity, have at it. In the end their goal is to the make profile like any business. It's inevitable, automation.
originally posted by: enlightenedservant
a reply to: NobodiesNormal
I'll never accept a civilization as being "advanced" as long as its existence depends on its citizens doing menial labor just to survive. I think automation will usher in a completely new form of civilization with limitless potential, though I have my doubts that the US will be at the center of it. There are simply too many people here who love the "work or die" mindset.
That would be like us visiting an "advanced" ET civilization, only to find out that 90% of them have to work the equivalent of 12 hours a day digging up rocks and milking cattle just to survive. But of course, their "elites" would be the only ones with access to most of the technology that makes them appear to be so advanced. We'd probably look at them as an oppressive oligarchy or kingdom.
originally posted by: enlightenedservant
a reply to: Throes
Companies will continue adding automation whether they pay their workers a minimum wage or a great wage. They just use the "but the workers are asking for too much money" argument to justify paying low wages until they can fully implement automation & replace those workers. Even corporate subsidiaries in low wage countries implement automation, which obliterates the argument that they're doing it because of the workers' wage demands.