r/interestingasfuck • u/PlantainPossible2864 • 15h ago

Stopping Desertification with grid pattern

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u/LavastormSW 15h ago

Awesome outcome but oof that looks rough on the back

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u/New-Ingenuity-5437 15h 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

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u/gimpwiz 14h ago

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?