Construction crane falls on vehicles in Seattle, killing two workers and two peo - Sensationalist Headlines

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are workers not considered people?

No.

I always thought those big ass cranes are spindly. All that weight sitting at the top of a really tall, thin pole.

It sure feels like we're treated like shit sometimes. One place developed by a bunch of stuck up snobs would (paraphrasing here) "Result in removal from jobsite and a $5000 fine" for daring to use the bathroom other than the poorly maintained portajohns a good distance away. Yes, you read that right, 5 thousand fucking dollars (or somewhere up there I wish I was kidding). Oh and making us park about a half mile away when there is plenty of flattened gravel to park on at the jobsite. Or even straight up being barred from using the cafeterias in some office buildings. And then there's just the general attitude towards construction workers from hoity toity tenants.

They are. Unbelievably strong in the axis they're intended to operate in and weak-as-tin-foil in the others.

They're supposed to have counterweights so that all of the forces are applied vertically to the structure.

Blue Collar and Retail Workers; espceially those that make the economy function are generally shat on by everyone.

Janitors are treated like garbage despite literally making those businesses even function day to day.

Unfortunately I think it is going to be easier to automate these jobs rather than make people just be nice

That depends on the job. Janitorial work would be pretty damn hard to automate.

Some of it, yes. Construction, and generic cleaning, probably not.

No. White collar and management positions are at the highest risk of automating because the infrastructure is already in place with tons of IT, techs and programmers in the field. Robots are the only way to replace blue collars and robots are not cheap and require all kinds of accessories like air compressors, cameras, pattern recognition software and engineers to oversee and repair them. don't get me wrong we could totally automate blue collar work it just isn't cost effective in the short term as not only would we have to build the proper infrastructure to support them the biggest robotics companies also aren't producing nearly enough robots for the global demand.

Dash cam video of the crane falling https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sk29sqZ9_VQ

Depends what you mean by generic cleaning, anything more complex than floor cleaning would be a bitch and a half to automate. Until cheap androids become the norm, it will remain more profitable to just pay a human to do it instead.

I didn't mean that other jobs were not in risk, I only meant that even in the next 50 years it's more likely that the jobs are ever going to get replaced by robots rather than people treating blue collars with respect.

The actual truth is that White Collar jobs(Think R&D assistants, Accountants and etc) are far easier to automate; and we're not even close to replacing a lot of the blue collar work that exists. Hell, retail is a lot safer than we originally thought due to the social aspects that customers enjoy; its the same reason Nursing is safe.

https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/133677/0827961d-b64e-4edf-96b9-080d650c0e16/image.png Mr. Roomba would like to have a word with you.

Someone had posted an image of the Marty robots at my workplace(Giant); it doesn't even do what a Roomba does. It goes around and finds garbage on the floor and then complains about it. What's garbage you might ask? Small sales tags and plastic. I've watched the robot drive past a smoosh cupcake, a bottle of opened sauce(it then spread the sauce around on the floor with its wheels), and other trash as well.