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Comment by olyjohn

16 hours ago

You already have machines that do the laundry. Put clothes in, they come out clean. Have you ever tried manually washing clothes? All you have to do is take them out and fold them.

For some reason I can't understand, you appear to be contorting yourself into making a totally bizarre argument (there is no valued in saved time whatsoever). You can't honestly believe that.

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.

  •   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washer-dryer
    

    Dirty clothes go in, dry clothes come out. Some have auto measuring detergent dispensers.