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Cake day: July 31st, 2023

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  • Yeah, surveillance steals value from consumers.

    Self-checkout seems better to me, because it decreases monotonous and forced public interaction (thus somewhat automated anyway): Beep. Beep. Beep. Do you want loyalty points? That’s 21.46€. Do you want the receipt? Goodbye! Beep. Beep. Beep…

    It uses less space.

    It is parallel instead of serial.

    The work is not much more than putting groceries on a checkout lane anyway, except for unlabelled fruits and vegetables.

    Self-checkout allows for smaller stores and coops, for example in villages or as kiosk.



  • The fear of employment replacement through automation hinders creativity which would actually provide safer, better and more meaningful employment.

    If people (workers, consumers, neighbours) would own or have a foot in their workplaces (i.e. cooperatives), they would care more about that.