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6 points

Nope. Back in my day we got service buying gas. Now I have to pay more for gas and do it myself. You are destroying a society, and to a point making somebody not being able to have a job for as long as possible. You pay extra and corporate benefits

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There’s no stopping automation. Even if the cashiers were free the big players would still go to a self service model.

It’s faster and less error prone, meaning more customers, meaning more profit.

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It’s not automation if I have to do it instead. What you are describing is those amazon stores with cameras up to each customers rectum - and even amazon is closing these down.

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18 points

Eh, it’s just unecessary. I’m all in favor of phasing out boring, repetitive jobs. Have humans do fun things while robots run shit we don’t want to deal with.

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8 points

My man, you the robot.

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4 points

Except that’s not what happens

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4 points

Yeah, all those fun things you can do without a job like sleeping in my car or wandering the streets.

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1 point

Try shitting on the streets of San Francisco

https://youtu.be/7I0vkKy504U

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3 points

I guess thats a fair point. I was talking more about stores tho where you can choose between self-checkout and normal checkout.

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It will lead to self checkout only and security personal being the only employee. Basically you can see this at a gas station

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I don’t disagree about your first point, but regarding the second I would like to point out something: I work at a fuel center, and at least in the US (or at the very least in Michigan), we are legally required to have at least 1 person at the fuel center at all times when it is open. Safety reasons.

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3 points

This is why my home town has a bylaw indicating that fuel can only be dispensed by personnel of the business retailing the fuel. Sometimes people from out of town do insist on pumping their own gas though.

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2 points

Sounds like a decent community. Kudos.

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