ROBOTS DO NOT SHOP

   

 

ROBOTS DO NOT SHOP

Once it was wrinkles that blemished me in your eyes:

Youthfulness alone met your taste in workers

Now it’s my humanness that you scorn

For the power and stamina of robots I lack

Yet sneer not at my flesh and bones;

True, they make me weak in work

But from them comes my consumer’s thirst

That keeps alive the world of work.

 

Hands by turns should work and shop –

That’s the cycle that keeps shops afloat,

And it only endures while humans work.

Robots don’t shop so their shops go bust.

Let them that sack us beware of this!

Today you’re the force and we the fossil

But tomorrow we’ll adapt and be  the force

 

In history’s graveyard big bones abound:

Dinosaurs, mammoths, and mastodons—

Let big business beware!

We’ll take the door that you show us

Out of your shop and into your homes

Where we worked for ages past.

Mark well where that door stands

For there your headstone too shall stand

When homes cluster and rise again

To be our place of bed and bread.

 

Thenceforth, home–branded goods alone we’ll buy

And watch your robots go jobless!

A sweet day that’ll be when tables turn

And present to you a thing to learn—

A thing about us whom you fired

From jobs where we were long mired

Unaware that in us dwelled power

To quit and our own world create

 

This poem was written by Agona Apell

 

 

 A robot is a type of automated machine that can execute specific tasks with little or no human intervention and with speed and precision.

 Robots play a significant role in various aspects of modern society and have become increasingly important for several reasons.

 Robots can perform movements and actions with greater precision and accuracy than humans.

This leads to enhanced productivity. Robots can work at a faster pace than humans and don't get tired, leading to more consistent and higher-volume production. Improved safety.

 Robots are good at routine things, but cannot innovate like people can. Machines are excellent at carrying out routine tasks, but only people can 'think out of the box.”

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