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Tesla and Amazon are building the workforce a 1921 play imagined: One that never asks for a wage
Why it’s here: The article covers humanoid robotics and workforce automation with federal ties (a White House appearance by Figure 03, Musk's proposed federal 'universal high income,' and Amazon's workforce plans), touching the robotics area, but it is largely a feature essay about automation's labor effects rather than a concrete federal policy development.
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YesterdayFortuneTesla and Amazon are building the workforce a 1921 play imagined: One that never asks for a wageFortune traces the shift from Čapek's 1921 play R.U.R. to today's humanoid robot push by Tesla, Agility Robotics, Amazon, OpenAI and Washington, and argues the labor-displacement risk shows up only when company ledgers are added together.1 outletRobotics8 linked
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