by Jason Boyce The year is 2030. Most humans have been replaced by machines in U.S. warehouses and factories. Millions of Americans are out of work and struggling to find jobs as robots pack, sort, ship, and carry out the myriad duties that just 10 years ago were the purview of living, breathing workers. There are few job prospects in sight for these workers as automation has completely taken over nearly every industry. As fictitious as this sounds, it is not a scene out of a science-fiction novel but instead a scenario that could occur in the very near future. Take, for example, Amazon’s recent launch of Proteus — the company’s first fully autonomous mobile robot. This should signal that much of the company’s workforce faces extinction by automation in the coming years. Despite the inevitability that all industries will adopt some type of automation to improve productivity and profitability, it is important that lawmakers take steps now to protect the human workforce before big tech behemoths like Amazon begin to phase them out. Amazon certainly has plenty of incentive to replace its human workforce with automated machines. For instance, there are rumors that Amazon is worried it could exhaust the supply of U.S.-based workers…
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