Robots Are Coming for All Jobs, Even Security Guards

[appalachiablue]

Vanessa Wingardh, June 29, 2026, (13 mins).
Description: Robots used to struggle to walk, now they're patrolling the streets. AI is what makes the headlines when it comes to job replacement but the industry quietly doing the replacing is 'robotics.' And thanks to the investment craze around AI, robotics has also received a financial boost.

Here's the point I did not get into in the video. Notice how automation gets sold depending on whose job is on the line.

When it comes to white collar workers, the pitch is that it will handle the boring work. When it comes to blue collar workers, the pitch is that it will handle the dangerous work. Either way, the framing is the same: it's here to help us, to take the parts of our job we didn't want anyway.

But that's the story they tell us the public, who they need on board for our replacements. The story they tell the corporations who they are actually selling to is much simpler: it cuts costs. The only problem is we're the costs.
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[Wonder Why]

1. We'll know it's all over for us when the billionaires push through a law that

"killing" a robot guard can get you the death penalty.

[appalachiablue]

2. Probably not beyond belief. Heaven help humans, esp the decent ones. Will robots go to church or

temple? I'm curious about the thought of robots worshipping.

[Jim__]

3. When I was young, say the 1950s, some union jobs were down to 32 hour work weeks.

We thought that by the time we went to work, the work-week would be about 16 to 20 hours. It didn't work out that way, of course.

I don't think technology, in itself, is either good or bad. Our problem is that we are implementing extremely powerful technologies without any real planning. If technology "replaces people", that's bad. If it performs our more tedious tasks for us, that's probably beneficial. We do need to understand what this technology means for people's lives, and how we can use it in a way that benefits all of us.

[Norrrm]

4. I see no problems with this.