Chapter 165 Anxiety about robots grabbing jobs spreads
Users almost vote with their feet. There are only two situations for people who do not order food on the Wanxiang Xiaochu platform.
The first type is people who don’t know about this platform yet, but as long as they have been online in the past month, there is no one who doesn’t know about it. With the blessing of WeChat traffic entrance and the blessing of banknote capabilities, Wanxiang Kitchen and GG promotion are all over the network. As long as you go online, there is always a channel to get information.
The second type is that you know it and have even downloaded the Wanxiang APP, but there are no stores in the city where you live, so you can’t order food even if you know it.
Many netizens are now urging Mr. Qin to open a store in their city. Customers are very anxious, and Wanxiang Kitchen is also very anxious, but if they are not anxious, the supply chain must keep up, otherwise the service quality will be greatly reduced.
After Qin Yiyun received Lu An's advice, he also followed the advice and did not continue to expand blindly.
Now that the momentum is building, word-of-mouth is spreading, supply chain links are done well, and stores will be opened as wide as the scope of the supply chain system.
It is worth mentioning that according to third-party big data reports, users of major food delivery platforms have average length of stay and number of opens on the APP. Wanxiang Kitchen APP has taken the lead since September.
Specifically, these two data exceeded the industry average of 8.2 times and 3.5 times.
The reason why users stay in the APP for a long time is that after ordering food, many people will stay in the APP to watch the live broadcast.
Even some word-of-mouth stores can have hundreds or even thousands of people watching the live broadcast at the same time. Users are watching and chatting via barrages, chatting about delicious dishes, commenting on the cooking skills of Xiaoyuan robot, or recommending their favorite dishes to each other in the live broadcast room.
It is obviously a food delivery APP, but the live broadcast module has vague social interaction attributes.
Even in the unrelated live broadcast room industry, some senior executives and bosses of online live broadcast platforms are alert and observing in secret.
These days, cross-border dimensionality reduction attacks are becoming more and more popular.
· The food delivery platform and the online live broadcast platform were originally two unrelated tracks. However, after the emergence of Wanxiang Kitchen, the two tracks suddenly intersected, and players in the live broadcast track had to be careful.
At present, there is still an order of magnitude gap between the scale of Wanxiang Kitchen and the size of the leading food delivery platforms, but several leading peers are now very nervous.
Because they cannot imitate the Wanxiang Chef model. If they follow the trend, it means that the entire business model will have to be drastically changed. This is an unacceptable sunk cost for them.
And that’s not the worst.
The biggest question is, even if we follow the Wanxiang Little Chef model, how can we bridge the gap in financial capabilities?
He Qin Yiyun dares to throw hundreds of billions at him in anger, but you don’t have hundreds of billions. He can even double it!
In this case, imitating Wanxiang Chef's play style is no different from seeking death.
Although it cannot be imitated, it can be discredited.
So he started to smear the rhythm, and the angle he chose was not to start a team directly with Wanxiang Chef, but to adopt a side play, targeting the Xiaoyuan robot.
As we enter late September, there are suddenly a lot of topics on the Internet about robots taking away human jobs.
Many media and self-media have also participated in the discussion of this topic, creating huge unemployment anxiety and panic.
A mainland media reported this:
【The popularity of robot cooking workshops is like a sharp double-edged sword. While it meets consumers' urgent needs for efficiency, hygiene and transparency, and sets off a new trend of "technological catering", it also inevitably pricks the most sensitive nerves of the traditional catering industry -
Labor costs and jobs. 】
This article uses a lot of sensational narrative reports to read the angry confession of a traditional small frying shop chef: "I have been cooking for thirty years! Now tell me it is not as good as an iron lump? Does it understand the heat? Does it understand the temperament of the ingredients? The dishes it stir-fries have the smell of the pot, and the people Is it interesting? ”
The report focused on the tragic narrative of “machine replacing people”, citing so-called “experts” who predict that if this model is rolled out on a large scale, it is expected to impact more than one million chefs and related jobs.
Another media weekly reported the title: "Who is responsible for those left behind by the technology train?" 》
This report raised the robot chef to the level of social stability, and issued a so-called reflective question in the article:
【Does efficiency improvement have to come at the expense of large-scale structural unemployment? When capital pursues the ultimate profits of "unmanned operation", who will protect the livelihood of ordinary workers? Capital is making a lot of money, but how can those eliminated chefs and their families transform their "pot energy" and "human touch" into bread? It is urgent to protect workers’ rights and interests. 】
One piece after another of carefully planned reports and comments, these amplified and distorted voices have indeed accurately hit people’s deep-seated anxiety about the impact of emerging technologies on employment.
Faced with this public opinion, He Zhiyuan, the person in charge of Wanxiang Kitchen, publicly stated:
Robots are entering the kitchen not to replace chefs, but to liberate chefs from high temperatures, oil fumes, and high-intensity repetitive work, allowing them to invest their valuable creativity, experience, and understanding of food into dish development, quality control, personalized service, and improvement of dining experience. What will be eliminated are backward, inefficient, and even unsafe working methods, not the people themselves.
But the outside world does not seem to buy it. As time goes by, the narrative about "robots grabbing jobs" quickly resonates, and at the same time it continues to amplify anxiety and panic.
Gradually, beyond the catering industry itself, people in other industries also began to worry and panic about humanoid robots taking over their jobs.
Monday, September 26th.
At 17:50 in the afternoon, Lu An came home from get off work. At this moment, he was staying in a room and working on developing the intelligent body of the artificial intelligence assistant Lingxi.
At this time, Liu Fusheng came to the door. The door was open. He stood at the door and knocked.
Seeing Lu An looking up, Liu Fusheng said: "Sir, Director Ge is here to visit. He has been invited to the living room."
Lu An nodded: "Okay, I understand."
Ge Yu's visit should be about something important.
Lu An put down what he was doing for the time being, got up and left the house.
When he came to the sofa in the living room, he saw Ge Yu standing up and looking over. Lu An smiled and said, "Please sit down."
The host and guest took their seats. Lu An leaned against the sofa and looked at each other and said bluntly: "Director Ge, what's the matter?"
Ge Yu looked at him and said, "Comrade Lu An, does he know the recent public opinion?"
Hearing this, Lu An looked away and thought for a moment.
After a moment, he looked at Ge Yu and said, "Did Director Ge mean that many media have recently used the narrative logic of 'robots grabbing jobs' to hype up this matter?" "
Ge Yu nodded: "That's right."
After a pause, Ge Yu said in a deep voice: "Yuanjie Intelligent Control has promoted the rapid development of humanoid robot technology, not only exceeding the expectations of the world, but also exceeding the expectations of the authorities."
Having said this, Ge Yu looked up at Lu An and added: "Comrade Lu An, the superiors are currently wondering about the potential impact of humanoid robots on employment issues? In particular, how to ensure that scientific and technological progress brings about the release of productivity while striking a balance between stabilizing employment?"
Lu An, as the founder of Metaverse Intelligent Control and the core developer of humanoid robot technology, the superiors attach great importance to his views, so they asked Ge Yu to come here to ask for advice.
In fact, Lu An had been waiting for this question for a long time.
He has a solution in his mind, but if the superiors don’t ask, he will not take the initiative to solve it.
This is not pretentious, but a grasp of the appropriateness, because having too much subjective initiative is not necessarily a good thing. In the eyes of others, they will think that you are capable and you will be outstanding. You have already done everything, so where can I leave it?
Lu An said frankly: "Based on the current technical level of humanoid robots, objectively speaking, it can indeed replace human jobs in many industries. If the cost of robots is further reduced, cooking, serving dishes, and screwing on assembly lines will be no problem. Employees in these industries cannot compete with robots."
Low-end repetitive labor positions such as screwing on factory assembly lines are the easiest to be replaced.
As the technology of robots continues to advance in the future, the scope of replacement will only become wider and wider. In theory, when humanoid robots are advanced to a certain extent, they can replace the first 99% of human jobs.
Ge Yu sighed and said: "The above are currently facing this problem. Scientific and technological progress should bring about the release of productivity, but at the cost of maintaining employment. Maintaining employment is tantamount to rejecting technological progress."
Lu An said unhurriedly: "One of the most intuitive standards of social progress is that people work shorter and shorter hours, live longer and longer, and the quality of life is getting higher and higher. Why can't our people live a high-quality life like Bei'ao?" At this point, Lu An looked at Ge Yu: "The reason why everyone feels panic and anxiety about the narrative of "robots grabbing jobs" is not that the bowl is gone, but that the rice in the bowl is gone. If the bowl is gone but the rice is still there, do you think people will still be anxious? It must be 10,000 supports.
This statement can be said to be to the point, and it goes to the heart of the matter.
That bowl is work, and rice is money.
If you still have money but lose your job, not only is it not a bad thing, but it is a double blessing.
No one wants to work overtime every day as a cow horse, and no one wants to drive screws on the assembly line from morning to night.
People are anxious and panicked about robots taking over their jobs. What they are anxious about is not the job itself, but that without the job, there will be no money, no source of income, and thus they will face a crisis of survival.
Ge Yu looked at Lu An and asked: "If robots are popularized to release technological productivity, how can we maintain employment?"
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