Huge funding round makes “Figure” Big Tech’s favorite humanoid robot company

Investors Microsoft, OpenAI, Nvidia, Jeff Bezos, and Intel value Figure at $2.6B.

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[ThatEffer]

This thing looks like a tin piece of crap right now but in less than a decade it will be replacing all those black Tesla plant workers Elon Musk seems to hate so much. I think, if anything we should start laying the groundwork for a Universal Basic Income, because the writing is kind of on the wall at this point for factory jobs.

So uh, how long have you been in the US?

 

[ThatEffer]

If you're... referring to how unpopular the UBI concept is at present I'd say that it's not like opinions are immutable and unchanging to societal pressures. When I was born (in the US, thanks for asking) gay marriage was more commonly regarded as some kind of satanic ritual rather than the law of the land. I mean we do this or we can bask in a 60% poverty rate like our friends in austerity ridden Argentina are enjoying right now.

The gay marriage thing certainly came as a surprise to me, though it did get settled through the courts instead of through laws.
In my experience this country is pretty thoroughly inoculated against anything that resembles socialism too closely for the populace at large. I'd love to be proven wrong, but I haven't seen anything yet that would lead me to believe otherwise.