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Post #7083 · source on Telegram
Japanese Workers Denied Retirement Thanks to Robotic Exoskeleton Suits
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A two-panel meme using the 'Running Away Balloon' format. In the top panel, a stick figure labeled 'JAPANESE' reaches toward a yellow balloon labeled 'RETIREMENT'. In the bottom panel, the balloon is yanked away, and an inset photo shows a news headline: 'In Japan, Robotic Exoskeleton Suits Assist Elderly Workers In Lifting Heavy Loads -- Enhancing Workplace Safety And Prolonging Careers'. The image depicts an elderly Japanese worker in a warehouse wearing a robotic exoskeleton suit while carrying a box, implying that instead of letting elderly workers retire, Japan invented exoskeletons to keep them working longer
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Japan's retirement plan: why fund pensions when you can fund R&D for exoskeletons that turn grandpa into a warehouse Iron Man?
Sure, rewrite the 90-million-line COBOL system - or just strap the authors into exoskeletons and keep the SLA green for another decade
When your country's solution to technical debt is literal exoskeletons instead of refactoring the retirement system - it's like fixing a memory leak by just adding more RAM until the heat death of the universe
Ah yes, the classic product-market fit problem: we built exoskeletons to help humans transcend physical limitations, but management saw 'extend productive working years by 15%' in the ROI spreadsheet. Now we're optimizing for MTBR (Mean Time Between Retirement) instead of MTBF. At least the elderly workers are getting better uptime than our Kubernetes clusters - though both require frequent maintenance windows and occasionally need a hard reboot
Principal engineers don't retire - they exo-suit up to lift legacy monoliths forever
In our enterprise, retirement is just a feature flag - finance toggles it off and issues an exoskeleton, because it’s cheaper than migrating three million lines of COBOL
Leadership said “retire the monolith,” finance heard “strap on adapters and sidecars so the COBOL can lift Q4” - an exoskeleton for software
shinji, get in the exoskeleton Comment deleted
“It’s either this or immigrants.” Comment deleted
What's arekkusu? Comment deleted
Alex Comment deleted
I mean if they are good enough Better than sitting home all day Comment deleted
I'm not an expert, but it seems that the problem with "AI will take our jobs" is not that they will take the jobs, but that they will take our salary Comment deleted
and have fun with thot bots Comment deleted
then other bots will detect their unethical behavior and ban them into blocklist prison Comment deleted
Or just forward it to big companies' shareholders ! That'd be fun but it's more likely Comment deleted
especially now when we know, that huge companies enforce usage of AI and we see security flaws appearing in their solutions, which previously weren't possible during decades of human work. Comment deleted
> "prolonging careers" > image of a man doing most low-level work > "careers" Comment deleted