Welcome to dystopia: getting fired from your job as an Amazon worker by an app Jessa Crispin

We were initially anxious about the introduction of robots into our workforce because of the potential disappearance of manual labor jobs. Robots would take over factories, we were told, they'd drive our cars and trucks, and they would do all of the cleaning that janitorial and domestic workers are currently hired to do. But it turns out auto-pilots drive cars about as well as my cat when he's drunk, and the way my friend's Roomba always gets lost under the kitchen table, spinning uselessly, unable to find his way out, suggests we'll still need people with brooms for a while now. Instead, the robots are here not to replace this lower tier of underpaid and undervalued work. They are here to smugly sit in the middle, monitoring and surveilling us, hiring and firing us.