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People in India were watching people checkout?! Poorly paid workers watching Westerners consume… this is so grim.

Time to dust off those guillotines.

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If folks haven’t yet, what’s it going to take?

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Amazon used the high tech process of having low paid cashiers that are hidden in another country. Amazon sucks so much.

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Just following in the steps of US founding father, Thomas Jefferson:

Dumbwaiters at Monticello

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Haha, so it was never AI? Just an Indian person getting annoyed at the people trying all kinds of weird tricks to see if they could defeat the ‘AI’ 🤣

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AI stands for “Absent Indian”.

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It always seemed like a massive amount of money and effort, to replace a couple dozen low wage workers. In the end it didn’t even do that.

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The article says they replaced them with remote workers in India, I’m assuming with even lower wages

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Next we’ll learn that Roombas aren’t actually robots...

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