Amazon has patented a system that would put workers in a cage, on top of a robot

The "wage cage" is an old documented meme https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/wage-cage

(fun fact - if you are ever asked to drive a forklift get the caged one - here's a reason why: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=exaxMAdqmnI )

Somebody drew that patent diagram, and nobody stopped them and said "come on isn't there a more attractive way we can portray this?"

Currently, there exists a cohort of professionals who genuinely sit up in a raised box for most of their shift and control a large machine underneath them to be productive. They are crane operators, they are genuinely well regarded, talented people and well paid for their efforts and experience and knowledge.

Maybe you can patent an existing concept with added cruelty as the point nowadays.

Alright... in a former life I operated a Cat 262D for moving pallets of stuff around a bus factory. It was hot, dusty, dirty work, but I don't think I ever complained about being a cage because it was great money for a 20 year old with no other useful skills the world needed.

Now get off my lawn... \s

Like a forklift?

How is this different from a shark cage? This is journalistic clickbait.

Why not INSIDE the robot? That way the robots and the workers will be indistinguishable. /s

(2018)

we already have this. it's called a car.