People who won't work otherwise they lose benefits

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Came across BBC article recently quoting a 20 year old man saying he had cut out Netflix and booze to cut his costs in these difficult times. However apparently he could not work more than his 16 hours otherwise he would lose his benefits. My DH is a manager in large organisation and he finds it difficult to get shifts/jobs covered as the employees claim they can't add more hours to their part time shift because they would lose entitlement to benefits. So there is work to be had, but it seems it is more lucrative not to work. What has gone wrong?

Many many people have jobs because so many IT systems require humans to do workarounds in order to get the work done . I’m all for new fancy pants IT systems, they have been paying my mortgage for many years

And they would have a bigger bill to pick up when business fail because they aren’t viable due to employing people they have no work for and the treasury would lose the taxes and the vat those companies pay

@Justthisonce12 is that the same system that thinks all patients own a Tardis and can time travel back to the day and time of their appointments when the appointment letter has arrived after the day of said appointment

It's a perfect system, the ex big boss of HSBC is in charge so it can't be wrong.

He was a care leaver, if we read the same article.
No support, no extended education, and no trade. I felt for him very much.

Refuse collection will be done a giant robot spider that can pick up sporadically placed bin bags and push along a truck 😂

Supermarkets will bring in self-filling shelves.

And yet supermarkets persevere with them, because they understand these things are minor irritations being gradually ironed out over time, while overall the self serve checkouts are already more cost effective than employing humans and will only become more so. Working better doesn't necessarily mean working perfectly, and to a supermarket's accounts department it doesn't even mean satisfying what customers want better; it just means delivering greater profits.

I must admit though, those checkouts have got a whole lot better since they were first launched all those years ago. The scales used to be really dodgy, register false errors and stop the process all the time. They must have just tweaked and tweaked them bit by bit over time, to get them working as they do. A lot of things in IT are like that, just each iteration being fractionally better than the last until the smoothness starts to outweigh the clunkiness.

If thats the limit of your imagination you wont require too much in the way of AI entertainment.

m.youtube.com/watch?v=N6v7HQiCNiQ
You seriously think stacking shelves will be an issue ?

some people have all this lovely imagination when it comes to AI yet they can’t begin to imagine how UBI would work…

No robot will replace a care worker. By saying they can and will, you are minimising the roles that our carers actually do.
No robot can replace the actual care that carers provide, and that is the time, compassion, and understanding. Care work is a lot more than wiping bums and encouraging feeding etc.

I'm sure people on production lines in factories 40 years ago said the same thing about robots replacing them.

And checkout operators 15 years ago.

No robot or AI will ever care. It is impossible for them to do so.
And I say that as a total saddo who uses Replika.

Um.. yes? Unless they’re holographic products?

Im all for UBI its literally the only viable solution

UBI would not be sustainable. It would create a massive underclass of people generations removed from having to work and being completely unable to provide for themselves, the people paying for it all would sooner or later have had enough and stop paying, and the end result would be either anarchy or mass genocide.

I am enjoying the WUMs on this thread

I don't understand how anyone could imagine Robots would not be able to stack shelves when we already have robots building cars, and robots building the robots that build cars.

Sunak tells NHS to embrace robot workers'

Rishi Sunak has mentioned multiple times the NHS must do things differently to improve efficiency through the challenging times ahead. The implementation of Robotic Process Automation can improve patient experience and give NHS staff more time by removing some of the administrative backlog.

Just the beginning

Oh I embrace all sorts of tech. The fact that often bits of it don’t speak to other bits has kept me in jobs for years. (I don’t work for the NHS)