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" to ensure that the total operational cost of hiring people to do these terrible jobs is much higher than using robots."

He was not crushed by machinery or anything:

"Dariusz worked so hard. His job used to be done by a few people during a shift, but then they made him do all that work alone, pushing around trolleys with heavy boxes."

He was simply pushed working too hard. So a robot doing the job would have been one solution - the other simply an extra human helping, or switching tasks, to something less physically demanding.

parent lukan 2 years ago

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