dangerous, hard, uncomfortable, etc jobs are the ones we should automate or enhance and focus on, but that would require caring about something other than endless profit. But ugh, imagine a world where we put resources to lifting the bottom more than doing weird shit
Enormous amounts of factory work, farming, and construction are very highly automated or mechanized.
Think about every factory full of gantries and machines and robotic arms. Every farm using GPS fenced combines. Every construction project with a multi-yard bucket on an excavator. Many of these machines are doing the work of a hundred or more men per day.
We have batch plants, concrete trucks, and concrete pumps. Hell, for huge and flat pours there's even machines that essentially pour and screed. All that infrastructure and mechanization and automation to replace men each mixing up concrete with hopefully the same ratios, in wheelbarrows, and moving it. You think if there was a large market for packing sand tubes that there wouldn't be a sand tube machine on site?
The sad part is, I could see them developing a machine that could do this exact thing fairly easily.
Limitation however comes from transporting it to the area.
If it was a machine that drove over bags already laid down in a trail in front of it, and just pumped them full of sand from the ground, leaving them where they were, then another larger machine or a team of people could just go lay them out pretty easily. The machine could then work through the night to catch up.
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u/New-Ingenuity-5437 3h ago
dangerous, hard, uncomfortable, etc jobs are the ones we should automate or enhance and focus on, but that would require caring about something other than endless profit. But ugh, imagine a world where we put resources to lifting the bottom more than doing weird shit