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Amazon's Long Island City Warehouse and Automation
from America's Election Headquarters · #121
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1 minTim and Ray joke about Amazon's promised 50,000 jobs actually being robots and automated warehouses, riffing on the disappearance of factory jobs that once supported a family.
- 28:27Tim argues Amazon's warehouses are run by machines, not people standing on assembly lines.
- 28:50Robots do everything at Amazon; workers are like transformer people walking around in machines, eating pudding from tubes.
- 29:08Factory workers used to be able to buy a house and raise a family with a single unskilled job putting rivets in cars.
- 29:19Now you can work a million skilled positions and still not afford a house.