That thumbnail has noting to do with the video...

edit: Changed the VS thumbnail to something better.

Love all the cool robot automation. *promote

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Sad thing is, while I appreciate that a hell of a lot of work was required to make the robots and program them, this is ultimately frustrating to watch compared to the master shipwright fixing a boat, or that guy that created a mastercraft machete from an old saw blade...

We are giving up something in our chase for industrialisation, something we might not realise we miss until it's gone.

Inefficiency?

I found it odd/funny when the guy unloads the hoods which have been automated to that point, from the robots onto a pallet, where it goes back to full automation again. I'd think that step would be just as easy to automate.

Also like how the line seems to stop to let robots to their work while the humans are on a moving line. Like when the robots drop the windshields in, full stop, all human work the line keeps going. Lol.

I agree the thumbnail is odd. I could see it if it was a tube chop and the part about design and mold making was cut out. Not upset it wasn't there, but odd thumbnail when you start much later in the process. Also sad we see the engine go up, but don't see the process of it actually being assembled or the next few steps like wheels and the like all going on, just skip from the engine going up to final screws and testing.

we'll see what happens once most jobs are 'efficiency-ed-out', unlike in the industrial revolution now you're not just seeing mechanization becoming faster at specific tasks, robotization is becoming more and more flexible, which means that as it goes on more and more broad categories of jobs will go by the wayside.

Just think of when in the endless quest for profit the moment it becomes more cost effective to switch to, say, self-driving delivery trucks and entirely automated fast food, how many millions of people will that put out of work? and what are they going to do?

I don't blindly subscribe to dystopian scenarios, but I also don't blindly subscribe to platitudes like "horse buggy whip factories disappeared and we were just fine", this is something we need to address as a society somehow (via basic income maybe, or some other way)

I don't think handcrafted will ever go away. It may dwindle but will never go out of demand. There are some of us out there who will always prefer the nuance and soul that goes into a handcrafted piece.

Technology isn't to blame for the damaging and exploitative nature of capitalism. As our production capability increases our society must necessarily get richer. Only the distribution of that wealth is in question. Basic income is long overdue as an obvious good.

If we have fewer menial jobs to do, that's great; the elimination of drudgery can't have a net negative effect except through gross social mismanagement. Destroy capitalism and democracy, put rational people in charge and everything gets better fast.