Rise of the robots Foxconn replaces 60,000 workers

[FA_Q2]

It is coming. A new economy is needed.

 

[Hossfly]

It is coming. A new economy is needed.

Have no worry. Obama has that under control.

 

[Hossfly]

Brutal, simply brutal and what will come to the USA

Rise of the robots: 60,000 workers culled from just one factory as China’s struggling electronics hub turns to artificial intelligence

The manufacturing hub for the electronics industry, Kunshan, in Jiangsu province, is seeking a drastic reduction in labour costs as it undergoes a makeover after an industrial explosion killed 146 people in 2014.

The county, one-seventh the size of neighbouring Shanghai and the mainland’s first county to achieve US$4,000 per capita income, was adjudged the best county for its economic performance by Forbes for seven years in a row.

However, the blaze, blamed on poor safety standards and haphazard industrialisation, dented Kunshan’s pride.

More than a year on, the county, which attracts much of its investment from Taiwan, is trying to reinvent its growth strategy. It is accelerating growth by replacing humans with robots and encouraging start-ups.

Rise of the robots: 60,000 workers culled from just one factory as China’s struggling electronics hub turns to artificial intelligence

Really, all workers can't be swapped for robots, because then there would be no consumers, because even fewer people would have money. This really isn't a scary thing.

 

[FA_Q2]

It is coming. A new economy is needed.

Have no worry. Obama has that under control.

That is not funny...

 

[alpine]

Yup. Robots are even cheaper than slave labor.

wait till they ask for "benefits"...

 

[flacaltenn]

Brutal, simply brutal and what will come to the USA

Rise of the robots: 60,000 workers culled from just one factory as China’s struggling electronics hub turns to artificial intelligence

The manufacturing hub for the electronics industry, Kunshan, in Jiangsu province, is seeking a drastic reduction in labour costs as it undergoes a makeover after an industrial explosion killed 146 people in 2014.

The county, one-seventh the size of neighbouring Shanghai and the mainland’s first county to achieve US$4,000 per capita income, was adjudged the best county for its economic performance by Forbes for seven years in a row.

However, the blaze, blamed on poor safety standards and haphazard industrialisation, dented Kunshan’s pride.

More than a year on, the county, which attracts much of its investment from Taiwan, is trying to reinvent its growth strategy. It is accelerating growth by replacing humans with robots and encouraging start-ups.

Rise of the robots: 60,000 workers culled from just one factory as China’s struggling electronics hub turns to artificial intelligence

The Chinese have been doing this for years. They don't want to have to build dormitories for workers from 800 miles away and feed them. They are smarter than we are. Realized what 21st Century manufacturing should look like and got out of the "cheap labor" biz. Instead of WHINING -- we SHOULD have beaten them to it.

But our leadership sucks. And they have no clue how to "create jobs" in the 21st Century. The Chinese do..
We just want to gripe that all the jobs are gone. The JOB in THIS century is a very different thing that it used to be. And we are COMPLETELY clueless and unprepared for the reality of an age where folks have to be versatile and multi-talented. Not gonna be fun to watch.

 

[flacaltenn]

It is coming. A new economy is needed.

Have no worry. Obama has that under control.

I heard something about training community organizers to pester the robots into unionizing. That's BRILLIANT !!

 

[Dot Com]

Welcome to the realization of Randianism. This is what Paul Ryan wants as well as he is a Randite

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[Rustic]

Brutal, simply brutal and what will come to the USA

Rise of the robots: 60,000 workers culled from just one factory as China’s struggling electronics hub turns to artificial intelligence

The manufacturing hub for the electronics industry, Kunshan, in Jiangsu province, is seeking a drastic reduction in labour costs as it undergoes a makeover after an industrial explosion killed 146 people in 2014.

The county, one-seventh the size of neighbouring Shanghai and the mainland’s first county to achieve US$4,000 per capita income, was adjudged the best county for its economic performance by Forbes for seven years in a row.

However, the blaze, blamed on poor safety standards and haphazard industrialisation, dented Kunshan’s pride.

More than a year on, the county, which attracts much of its investment from Taiwan, is trying to reinvent its growth strategy. It is accelerating growth by replacing humans with robots and encouraging start-ups.

Rise of the robots: 60,000 workers culled from just one factory as China’s struggling electronics hub turns to artificial intelligence

Socialism makes profits and any type of freedom nonexistent... ''It takes a village" is a load of fucking shit.

 

[FA_Q2]

It is coming. A new economy is needed.

Have no worry. Obama has that under control.

I heard something about training community organizers to pester the robots into unionizing. That's BRILLIANT !!

You joke but a poster here did put fourth that limitations should be placed on automated machines so that 'workers' would own them and could only own so much productivity so that produces would have to pay them for the use of those machines. IOW, that thought process is already out there.