Japan Airlines will introduce the robots for trial run at a Tokyo airport amid country’s surge in inbound tourism and worsening labour shortages
  • Lodespawn@aussie.zoneEnglish
    1 hour

    Sounds like they need to fix their immigration policies to attract new young labour

    • inari@piefed.zipEnglish
      1 hour

      Every country will experience labor shortages at some point, it’s unavoidable

      • Pommes_für_dein_Balg@feddit.orgEnglish
        53 minutes

        But why? Labor productivity is thousands of times higher than before the industrial revolution, and keeps growing exponentially.
        We actually should be able to provide all goods and services we need to live comfortably with very few people actually having to work.

        • OrganicMustard@lemmy.worldEnglish
          6 minutes

          But we need most of those people to do bullshit jobs, like spreadsheets and reports no one is going to ever read

        • 14th_cylon@lemmy.zipEnglish
          2 minutes

          But why? Labor productivity is thousands of times higher

          because the increased productivity comes from using tools, and so they are introducing another tool to keep increasing the productivity.

  • Alcoholicorn@mander.xyzEnglish
    2 hours

    So the article referenced a “chronicles labor shortage”, but nobody can afford the little luxuries they afforded 10 year ago.

    Have they tried just paying people more?

  • rizzothesmall@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    5 hours

    You gotta get some of those soccer robots if they’re going to realistically dropkick the shit out of the luggage.