Robots fold laundry slower but never complain; automating boring tasks is the future
ingliguori · x · 2026-08-29
The author compares a robot folding laundry (3 mins) vs. a human (20 mins), highlighting that robots don't complain. It argues we obsess over what robots can't do yet, overlooking their current roles in warehousing, surgery, and farming. The key question isn't job replacement, but what we do when boring tasks are automated. Companies solving this now will dominate the next decade.
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