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mrbill on March 20, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Amazon acquiring Kiva Systems for $775 million

This can also ease a lot of the criticism that Amazon is getting about slave-driving the (human) pickers in their warehouses lately.

cvg on March 20, 2012 | [–]

True. Ironically this will also result in criticism about how Amazon isn't employing enough humans.

WalterBright on March 20, 2012 | [–]

Until the robots unionize, of course.

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