Comment by zo1

Comment by zo1 4 days ago

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And yet such a HUGE amount of time is spent by families around the world (mine included) just moving laundry around in various states:

Dirty -> Sort It Yourself -> Plan Washing Chunks -> Load into Washing machine -> Yay It "Washed it For You" -> wet pile of clothes -> Unload it -> dryer -> Dryer "Dries" it For You -> Fold It Yourself -> Storage.

Now do this for a family with 2 kids that go to school. Washing is literally an hour or two of collective human time every day.

I'd pay money to rather spend that time with my kids instead of yet another useless daily chore that can be automated.

Now also apply the same logic to dishes, clearing up around the house, sorting cupboards, Driving!!, and a host of other things. The market is absolutely huge, and people are sticking their heads in the sand because they know that once this drops, humanity will reach an inflection point and all pointless manual labor will disappear, which means saying goodbye to cheap third world labor and only capital + raw resources + energy will be the only things holding back all scaling.

numpad0 4 days ago

  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washer-dryer
Dirty clothes go in, dry clothes come out. Some have auto measuring detergent dispensers.
  • olyjohn 7 hours ago

    Also, despite what people think, children are capable of doing their own laundry and clean up after themselves. Maybe they can spend an hour less on their screens. Imagine what a spoiled-ass shit kid would grow up in a house where they have no responsibilities.