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[–] Smoogs@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (3 children)

some people don’t want it wait for a million years for the person in front of them with 600 items to get through.

Some solutions are not just about solving one thing or a personal attack.

[–] blindbunny@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Tell that to people that could have had jobs as a cashier that those machines have taken away.

May the hammer of Enoch do it's work.

[–] vithigar@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Doing less work has been the primary motivating factor behind basically all of human progress. The problem is that the savings is lining shareholder pockets instead of reducing employee workload.

[–] blindbunny@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

Yep, hence the Luddite reference.

[–] Demdaru@lemmy.world -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I will, no problem. Luddites have no place today, thank you.

Heck, cashiers are still wprking where I live. One of them just gets assigned to 6 or 8 self checkouts instead of normal register.

[–] blindbunny@lemmy.ml -1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)
[–] gamermanh@lemmy.dbzer0.com -2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Oh no, automation getting rid of shit jobs people didn't like already, the horror

[–] blindbunny@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Just learn to code right bro. You dumb ass libs always assume everyone is as skilled as you and every job you don't want to do is lesser. Some people like being cashiers.

Get back at me when you learn some labor theory and intersectionalize more.

[–] gamermanh@lemmy.dbzer0.com -2 points 1 year ago

Just learn to code right bro

Lol, no, don't put words in my mouth, dickhead

You dumb ass libs

Swing and a miss

assume everyone is as skilled as you

Even BIGGER miss. I'm an asshole and assume most people are far less skilled than me, and am regularly proven right

and every job you don't want to do is lesser

Your words, not mine, I don't consider cashier's to be lesser to me in any way unless they, as an individual, give me reason to

Some people like being cashiers

Yeah, you'll notice you said "some" and not "most", so what's your point, exactly?

Get back at me when you learn some labor theory and intersectionalize more.

Get back at me when you learn how to discuss what was said and not prop up a shitty strawman

[–] Slovene@feddit.nl 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There is no automation getting rid of a shit job. The customers now have the privilege to do that job for themselves.

[–] gamermanh@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 1 year ago

Pick one: it's losing people their jobs, or it's not

Quite prefer doing it myself, none of my local stores have any of the issues listed elsewhere on the thread. Must suck for them but that's not a reason to not progress

[–] bitchkat@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

That is definitely one of the reasons to skip self checkout.

[–] johannesvanderwhales@lemmy.world -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Like you're not waiting for the person in front of you in self-checkout to fumble their way through scanning those items? Who do you think is faster at it, the boomer in front of you in line or someone who does it all day? You're just buying into the bullshit narrative you're being fed.

[–] samus12345@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Self-checkout has almost always been faster for me. No bullshit narrative, just actual experience.

[–] blindbunny@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

When's the last time someone checked you out?

[–] samus12345@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Don't remember. All I know is that the average time I've spent waiting for when doing self-check is shorter than the average time waiting when not.

[–] blindbunny@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

Next time your feeling social or not it a rush have someone check you out. Hell you can even do it if there's a cute bean working.