Amazon recently added more than one million robots to perform tasks in its warehouses. Robots, now involved in 75 percent of Amazon’s deliveries, almost equal the company’s number of human warehouse workers. Over time the jobs performed by robots have grown more complex. Initially employed to move heavy items, they also now do packaging and sorting of products.
What’s happening at Amazon is part of a general trend toward automation in our economy, a trend increasingly enhanced with advances in artificial intelligence. According to a number of forecasts, in the fairly-near future many of the jobs now being done by people will be automated.
Advancing automation belies the claim of mass immigration advocates that we won’t have enough workers if mass immigration doesn’t continue. In reality, we can use machines to meet our needs, in many cases to do the hard and repetitive jobs that most people prefer not to do.
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