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She sounds like a bit of a nutter, to be honest.
We've been losing jobs to automation for over a hundred years, and yet most of the adult population are employed.
She may or may not be a nutter (her reaction is probably a by-product of being from another generation though, I would guess).
But the point it, blocking a fucking robot shouldn't be an arrestable offense.
I mean you may not like self-serve machines in grocery stores, but if you stand in front of it and stop it working while a customer was in the middle of using it... you are making a tool of yourself and being a public nuisance.
Someone's expecting a meal they paid for and you're in the goddamn way.
Motor Vehicles belong in the street. Sidewalks are the tiny little space we used to allocate for humans. I guess we're not allowed any space now, just need to either drive everywhere or have it delivered. What a lovely society we're building.
The street used to belong to humans, too... Isn't having miniature robots– or bikes– a lot safer and more efficient than having to haul entire vehicles around to deliver a bag of food? Especially in tight-nit city areas where traffic already poses a huge problem for people who just want their space to be walkable.
Bikes have to go in the street, actually.
But the robots don't for some reason.
Coming at it from another angle: I would hate for sidewalks to be taken over by robots. It feels like the sidewalks get less safe if there's these feet-level robots running around on there.If anything they should be on the road, maybe in a faster vehicle. Maybe a bigger vehicle, maybe one that already exists. Hmm
You're missing the part where the police told her multiple times to knock it off, that's what got her arrested.
Jobless behaviour, in my opinion.
"The police are always right to tell people to stop doing anything that hurts businesses!"
Do you need to change your behaviour if the police commands it? Unless there is a law that requires meat suits to always yield to robots