Iphone manufacturer foxconn plans to replace almost every human worker with robots

[danielpalos]

Technology and productivity are going to put, and keep, huge numbers of Americans out of work.

The curve is only going to get steeper.

We have to start looking at a universal basic salary. The problem is that, so far, our "leaders" don't have the balls to point out the obvious.
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Not necessarily. The kind of work automation will replace is repetitive and relatively low skilled, especially that is done in one location. Robots excel at that. I think it is more likely that, much like when tractors replaced mules in front of plows, other types of work will spring up. Gone, however, will be ever more low skilled, repetitive manual labor.

I can see that, but there is a large population who would have to be re-trained, damn near immediately. That's a costly process and won't take for everyone.

Either way, I hope you're right.
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Oh, there would be turmoil for a while, no doubt. The same thing happened during the Industrial Revolution, when farming jobs started drying up and factory jobs began.

Heck, it's happening now in IT. When I started, you could get a decent job if you could get a COBOL program to compile. Now a programmer can pick and paste pre-made code modules and create a state of the art application. You have to have a much wider field of knowledge to succeed in IT today because of automation, even though it's not due to robots. I have to continually update my skills to stay current.

this is where simple socialism can bailout capitalism's, laissez-fair laziness regarding a natural rate of unemployment. that is simply unacceptable for the sake of the Nurture of the socialism necessary to promote and provide for the general welfare.

Labor should not be subject to the whim of capitalists merely seeking a profit.

we should abolish the capitalism of a natural rate of unemployment; on an at-will basis in our at-will employment States with the socialism of equality and equal protection of the law regarding the concept of employment at will, for unemployment compensation purposes.

 

[hadit]

Technology and productivity are going to put, and keep, huge numbers of Americans out of work.

The curve is only going to get steeper.

We have to start looking at a universal basic salary. The problem is that, so far, our "leaders" don't have the balls to point out the obvious.
.

Not necessarily. The kind of work automation will replace is repetitive and relatively low skilled, especially that is done in one location. Robots excel at that. I think it is more likely that, much like when tractors replaced mules in front of plows, other types of work will spring up. Gone, however, will be ever more low skilled, repetitive manual labor.

I can see that, but there is a large population who would have to be re-trained, damn near immediately. That's a costly process and won't take for everyone.

Either way, I hope you're right.
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Oh, there would be turmoil for a while, no doubt. The same thing happened during the Industrial Revolution, when farming jobs started drying up and factory jobs began.

Heck, it's happening now in IT. When I started, you could get a decent job if you could get a COBOL program to compile. Now a programmer can pick and paste pre-made code modules and create a state of the art application. You have to have a much wider field of knowledge to succeed in IT today because of automation, even though it's not due to robots. I have to continually update my skills to stay current.

this is where simple socialism can bailout capitalism's, laissez-fair laziness regarding a natural rate of unemployment. that is simply unacceptable for the sake of the Nurture of the socialism necessary to promote and provide for the general welfare.

Labor should not be subject to the whim of capitalists merely seeking a profit.

we should abolish the capitalism of a natural rate of unemployment; on an at-will basis in our at-will employment States with the socialism of equality and equal protection of the law regarding the concept of employment at will, for unemployment compensation purposes.

Make sure to organize the robots. Socialism simply doesn't work, we've been over that.

 

[danielpalos]

Technology and productivity are going to put, and keep, huge numbers of Americans out of work.

The curve is only going to get steeper.

We have to start looking at a universal basic salary. The problem is that, so far, our "leaders" don't have the balls to point out the obvious.
.

Not necessarily. The kind of work automation will replace is repetitive and relatively low skilled, especially that is done in one location. Robots excel at that. I think it is more likely that, much like when tractors replaced mules in front of plows, other types of work will spring up. Gone, however, will be ever more low skilled, repetitive manual labor.

I can see that, but there is a large population who would have to be re-trained, damn near immediately. That's a costly process and won't take for everyone.

Either way, I hope you're right.
.

Oh, there would be turmoil for a while, no doubt. The same thing happened during the Industrial Revolution, when farming jobs started drying up and factory jobs began.

Heck, it's happening now in IT. When I started, you could get a decent job if you could get a COBOL program to compile. Now a programmer can pick and paste pre-made code modules and create a state of the art application. You have to have a much wider field of knowledge to succeed in IT today because of automation, even though it's not due to robots. I have to continually update my skills to stay current.

this is where simple socialism can bailout capitalism's, laissez-fair laziness regarding a natural rate of unemployment. that is simply unacceptable for the sake of the Nurture of the socialism necessary to promote and provide for the general welfare.

Labor should not be subject to the whim of capitalists merely seeking a profit.

we should abolish the capitalism of a natural rate of unemployment; on an at-will basis in our at-will employment States with the socialism of equality and equal protection of the law regarding the concept of employment at will, for unemployment compensation purposes.

Make sure to organize the robots. Socialism simply doesn't work, we've been over that.

It works for us. We have the Best form of Socialism in the Entire World; the rich can even keep their multimillion dollar bonuses while on means tested corporate welfare and the poor can still have steak and lobster on their EBT cards.

 

[sealybobo]

iPhone Manufacturer Foxconn Plans to Replace almost Every Human Worker with Robots
China’s iPhone factories are being automated
Foxconn, the Taiwanese manufacturing giant behind Apple’s iPhone and numerous other major electronics devices, aims to automate away a vast majority of its human employees, according to a report from DigiTimes. Dai Jia-peng, the general manager of Foxconn’s automation committee, says the company has a three-phase plan in place to automate its Chinese factories using software and in-house robotics units, known as Foxbots.
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Most of us saw this coming a long time ago. Every years it's going to get worse. Expect jobs to become less and less as time goes on. Wonder how long it will take the liberals to figure that one out. They will still sit by the door waiting for their heoric Hitler Obama or Clinton to save them if they were in office, the funny thing is since we will have Trump in office they'll expect him to save their dumb asses after they shredded him to pieces, and wanting him dead.
Instead of being called Democrats they should be called " Hypocrites".

What workers?

 

[Resnic]

The purpose of "globalization" is harmonized regulatory systems such that capital knows no nationalism. Nationalism is for the little people.

No. Globalization is intended to control everything by the wealthiest in the world and no other reason. Globalism has no greater good aspects in mind. It's for the good of the few, not the many.

It's why the world economic forum has declared America is over and will no longer be a world super power. It instead will be part of a a few global elites controlling everything.

https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2016/11/america-s-dominance-is-over/

And if you aren't sure who the world economic forum is then here is a list that includes major world players from all countries.

https://www.weforum.org/about/leadership-and-governance/

These are the same people who tell us we will own nothing and be happy, that we must live in smart cities where we don't need to go more than 20 miles in our life, that we will only have meat as an occasional treat, that we shouldn't own cars but instead a community shares just a few cars, that everything we need will be delivered to us, and so on. All things intended to make sure we just work, don't own very much, don't move around too much and basically turn us into serfs.

These are all people who have absolutely no concept of what it's like to be an average person. They don't pay bills, they don't go to the movies, they don't know how plumbing works, they don't know what a budget is, they have never seen the inside of a public school, never talked to a neighbor that's an electrician, never flown a commercial flight or anything.

So when they have everything and work for nothing what is there left for them to do other than have control? That's their goal because every goal 8+ billion people in the world have they can achieve with 0 effort. The only thing they can get they don't have now is global control. That's the only thing that drives them, control. When you live in a 50,000,000 home and have personal jets to take you anywhere in the world at any time and do anything what is there left to do?

No. Globalism will mean the demise of freedom and the demise of independence.