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Amazon's patent for caging workers was before it's time idea, exec admits
| the patent's purpose was geared toward employee slacking off, rather than freedom. The caged mobile workspace was designed to keep humans from taking too many restroom breaks
An Amazon executive, Dave Clark, wrote on Twitter that the company doesn't plan on using the design just yet.
"Sometimes even ideas before their time get submitted for patents," wrote Clark, senior vice president of operations at Amazon, responding to a Seattle Times article about the patent.
| "This was never used and we have no plans for usage at the moment.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/amazons-patent-for-caging-workers-was-a-bad-idea-exec-admits/
| Could we like, not march unendingly to a nightmarish cyberpunk dystopia? Thanks.
| The worst part is theyre not denying that they might use it in the future.
| Amazon needs destroyed
| But will anyone stop shopping at Amazon if they implement this? People act outraged then hop online to pick up a new Kindle.
| >>405053
I guess that depends largely on how widespread it's reported and how much outrage there is.
People still shop at Walmart despite the megacorporation being criticized by everyone for the past few decades.
| >>405055
Walmart still largely depends on employees though. They have physical presence. Amazon increasingly does not, as we can see by the continued robotification of their processes.
| If we cant stop shopping at Amazon at the very least can we just have some vigilantes start routinely murdering every CEO and major shareholder until they get the idea
| Amazon warehouse worker here. The stations we use now are pretty nice. I sit in my station all day , they use these large rumba like robots to carry the products around the floors. Theirs an area I can't enter , that is specifically for the robots to commute around in. They arrive at my station, I scan the products, count them. Enter the number into the scanner and move onto the next one. The pays pretty good , starts at 11.25 an hour. The place is pretty big 4 floors.
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| Amazon, which has come under fire for treating warehouse workers "as robots," is now deflecting criticism for a 2016 patent that proposed to house workers in cages.
The patent was highlighted in a recent article by two AI researchers, who wrote that the design illustrated "an extraordinary illustration of worker alienation, a stark moment in the relationship between humans and machines."
While the optics of placing a worker inside a cage certainly aren't good,