These robots can build Ikea furniture

These robots can build Ikea furniture

Every dad’s toolbox, no matter how well equipped, has a lot of those little mini Allen keys that Ikea gives out with its flat-pack furniture. Millions of Sundays have been spent by dad’s all over the world, doing their fatherly duty and “building” furniture for their home and their family. This may all be about to end, however, as the automated onset of impotence rolls on. The robots aren’t just coming for your job dads; they’re coming into your home too. The robots can now build flat-pack furniture.

It never mattered whether a dad is good at “building” stuff or merely “putting it together” as mom often remarked. What always mattered was that dad did it. Dad did it himself. A pillar of dad’s manhood has always been built on the fact that he can do things himself, but now dad’s very manhood is under threat.

With robots coming for his traditional sense of himself, the modern dad will now have to learn new skills if he is to survive in this dystopian millennial nightmare that is springing up around him. With no “DIY” left to prove his worth to his family, he’ll have to start familiarizing himself with abstract concepts like feelings and emotions. The modern dad will have to look elsewhere to show his strength, and maybe, just maybe he’ll see that strong doesn’t have to mean hard.

You can do it, dad; you’re the best.