Thousands of Amazon staff members across Europe were protesting on Black Friday over the way the company treats its warehouse workers. A coalition of unions across Europe coordinated the action, and the British trade union GMB published a video of workers telling Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos “we are not robots” in five different languages. In…
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His 2020 Campaign Message: The Robots Are Coming
The Shift By KEVIN ROOSE Among the many, many Democrats who will seek the party’s presidential nomination in 2020, most probably agree on a handful of core issues: protecting DACA, rejoining the Paris climate agreement, unraveling President Trump’s tax breaks for the wealthy. Only one of them will be focused on the robot apocalypse. That…