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We thought the rider fell off or something and it was going to crash. Then it turned and kept mowing. Park Roomba!

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[–] AllonzeeLV@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Automation isn't the enemy.

As ever, the owner class that hoards and wages economic war on you though automation for their exclusive benefit at their society's expense are your enemy, whether you would fight them or not.

Arguing that we should "save" back breaking, repetitive unnatural movement, manual labor jobs that break human bodies by the time they're 40 is the WRONG hill to die on. Fight for the citizenry to reap the benefits of automation through taxation, not to keep shitty jobs robots can do faster and better. Fight to change the economy so that everyone doesn't need meaningless jobs machines can do better so we can have actual time to live our lives.

Taxing the fuck out of automation would let everyone win, because a heavily taxed robot is still far cheaper for the company than a human or possibly several humans for that one robot would be, so automation is here either way. We can riot to change our economy to benefit from this technology as we should, or we can be steamrolled yet again by the dictates of the affluent who will demand and get all the benefits and none of the responsibility if not confronted and countered on revolutionary terms.

Please pick the former. There's no dignity or meaning to be had shuffling boxes around in an Amazon warehouse. Begging the owners to let us try to continue to compete with literal purpose built repetitive labor machines is not the way.

[–] kibiz0r@midwest.social 1 points 4 months ago

Fun fact: The Luddites weren’t opposed to technology. In many cases, they built the machines they would later destroy.

What they opposed was the ownership structure. The fact that they could be 30x more productive, yet be paid less than before because the required skill level was lower, and the working conditions were now dangerous and demeaning.

Yet when someone says “luddite” now, what do you think? A dummy who’s afraid of having cool stuff?

[–] antidote101@lemmy.world 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

It's more likely remote controlled. There's probably a guy with a controller near by. They've been around for a couple of decades now, but are generally only used where an angle is too steep or too close to a highway or cliff face.

[–] TwoCubed@feddit.de 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I don't get it, don't you guys have a lawn bot at home? Who in their right mind would mow their lawn by hand these days? Sure, this is scaled up by a considerate amount, but its the same technology (though I imagine this boy uses beacons for navigation as opposed to gps or wire).

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

We have 1 1/2 acres. Mowing it by hand, even with a self-propelled mower, sucks. Especially in August. If we could afford a lawn bot, we'd definitely get one.

[–] TwoCubed@feddit.de 0 points 4 months ago

Ok, that's quite a lot, wow! Consumer grade bots won't cut it. You'd need at least 3 of them to make it work somehow.

[–] baatliwala@lemmy.world 0 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

I don't mean this in a negative way but I swear you're like the Gallowboob of Lemmy, see you everywhere.

[–] Linkerbaan@lemmy.world 0 points 4 months ago

Contributors that don't post like bots stick out

[–] safesyrup@lemmy.hogru.ch 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Never seen a gas powered automatic lawnmower, only electric ones.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

This is the size of a huge riding mower you only see used by parks departments and the like.

[–] KnightontheSun@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 days ago)
[–] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world -1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Reminds me of this meme:

How many mowers do you think you could get your hands on before they catch you?

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I don't know that I could fit it in my car.

[–] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world -1 points 4 months ago

we can prob balance it on my skate board and we can tow it.