Two uncanny humanoid robots, united in their quest to further automate labor and strip actual employees of economic leverage but divided by rival oligarchic houses. Neither creepy bipedal monstrosity’s fathers approve of their union, but secretly, secretly, they dream their android dreams of one day meeting and consummating their love in some darkened Amazon warehouse or Tesla Gigafactory...
It’s the perfect Dystopia 2021 romance, and it’s inching closer to fruition after Amazon announced a major investment in Agility Robotics, one of the latest purveyors of vaguely human-like beasts of burden meant to increase productivity and ease labor shortages brought on by us ungrateful folks not wanting to get paid minimum wage in exchange for workplace injuries.
