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OC375

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4. Just a matter of time before they come for your job.

Reply to Omaha Steve (Original post)

Sat Jul 4, 2026, 04:19 PM

7 hrs ago

Creative type? Work with your hands? Unique talent amongst everyone else in the world? You can still be copied.

People will accept crappy analogues of what you bring to the table if it's cheaper, faster or better for them in some way. Doesn't have to be all three either to be worthwhile.

We're going to get what we've been bitching about since the dawn of time... more free time, and less work.

We'll need to find whole new way to value life, because technology is making it cheaper by the day.

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Major Union Livid After 1,000 Factory Workers Were Replaced With 50 Robots [View all] Omaha Steve 8 hrs ago OP

Where do the workers go? Norrrm 8 hrs ago #1

And then who buys these expensive new EVs? Not the laid-off workers. erronis 7 hrs ago #8

If people had been buying them in enough numbers, there might not have been any layoffs to begin with. MichMan 21 min ago #14

50 "cobots" couldn't replace 1000 people MichMan 8 hrs ago #2

1,000 workers that can ACTUALLY afford what is built at that plant shit canned Bengus81 7 hrs ago #3

This orangecrush 7 hrs ago #5

They just need the government to afford the vehicles. Or at least print the money for it. OC375 7 hrs ago #6

China is not going to buy US-made EVs. They are making better models at one-third the price. erronis 7 hrs ago #9

Not yet. Things can change. OC375 6 hrs ago #10

Just a matter of time before they come for your job. OC375 7 hrs ago #4

I predict GM will have to backtrack on this iemanja 7 hrs ago #7

It depends on how strong the union's contract is. LudwigPastorius 8 min ago #16

as a side note, transient fruit/veg pickers will only be necessary until---- gfwzig 6 hrs ago #11

So the consumer will now pay less...? Grins 6 hrs ago #12

GM bromeando 3 hrs ago #13

GM Shuts Factory Zero, Lays Off 1,300 Workers as $7.6B EV Losses Mount and Gas Trucks Run at Full Throttle MichMan 10 min ago #15