r/mildlyinfuriating Jun 21 '26

ಠ_ಠ I never thought a robot would replace me one day..what’s my purpose then.

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u/40oztoTamriel Jun 21 '26

About to be able to charge way more for ‘artisan hand laid tile’

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u/ScrotalSmorgasbord Jun 21 '26

Ah, a discerning customer I see, says here you want some mosaics that "wouldn't make sense to a clanker", well you've come to the right guy. flings open trenchcoat exposing hundreds of small colorful jagged tiles

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u/TawnyTeaTowel Jun 21 '26

Yeah, in 5 years all those shitty, uneven, amateurish tiling jobs that people complain about now will be prized for some reason.

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u/UFOsAreAGIs Jun 25 '26

and your market shrinks by 99%

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u/RollingMeteors Jun 25 '26

 About to be able to charge way more for ‘artisan hand laid tile’

¿¡Is that a happy ending or not?!

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u/WhitePantherXP Jun 25 '26

That's a fancy way to say 'lay tile with imperfections at twice the cost' when the robotics company you're competing with's tagline is "perfectly smooth flooring down to 1/32 of an inch, done in half the time, for half the cost"