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If Jassy had his way, Amazon's sole employee would be him and he'd be rent seeking everything down the line with robots and AI.

He has no vision beyond what is best for him personally. Other people aren't humans.

How's that UBI coming? Oh, totally off the table you say? Well, the people will surely find something better to do than rising up.
Oh don't worry. Americans at least will be kept so busy in the mines (for which they yearn) and fighting wars that they won't have the energy to rebel.
What a meaningless metric. Number of discrete robots is not a measurement of productivity, labor, task throughput or anything like that.

Also the regular yada yada that non-robot automation offset people, non-automated tools also reduce number of people needed.

Amazon is also on the cusp of becoming the largest company by revenue.
Counting robots is like counting circuits in a piece of electronics: It's Meaningless.

However what would be interesting is if they ever have a situation where the number of humanoid robot employees outnumbers human employees. Once someone is able to run an entire large corporation with no humans at all it will be a big milestone I guess.

But there's no real driving force for this to happen, because the humanoid form factor is not necessarily ideal for most kinds of industrial applications. And a lot of the "Automation" will be AI Agents, which have no form factor at all, being purely knowledge based.

I’m sure that when more than half of us are unemployed that we’ll just sit quietly and know our place.

What’s that you say? People with nothing left to lose tend to put the heads of Capitalists on pikes for all to see? Well maybe you should have thought of that before pillaging the commons and treating people like slaves? But “fiduciary duty to shareholder value” you say? You made that shit up in the 1950s and have been pushing it like it were true ever since. Saying a thing doesn’t make it true.

The most interesting stat to me is:

> The number of packages that Amazon ships itself per employee each year has also steadily increased since at least 2015 to about 3,870 from about 175...

Depending how you define 'robot', it's sorta surprising this hasn't already been true for years.