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To be fair, the delivery robots I've seen (made by Yandex, which is known for bleeding-edge developments in self-driving technology) made good job to be as unobtrusive and predictable as possible, while also avoiding humans in quite a large range.
My only issue with them is that these are camera-equipped devices rolling the streets and likely sending all that footage to their Big Tech daddies. Besides that, they do their job well, reducing the need for hard human labor.
I'm sure the people who were surviving off that hard human labor are thrilled
Eliminating terrible jobs may come with new, somewhat less crushing ones.
The reality of the labor market on its lower end is that plenty of jobs are unnecessary and artificial. They are meant to generate employment while not reducing working hours or (re-)educating people to take jobs that are actually in demand. It is a simple band-aid, that is easy for the government and good for capital (as it gets both incentives from the government and a pass on building a gig economy).
The more terrible, crushing jobs we eliminate, the more the government us forced to actually do something meaningful about the labor.
I’m surprised that those who lost the work aren’t administers or some beneficiary of it. UBI seems to be the way??