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by unabst
3687 days ago
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We should also be asking, who owns the robots? If companies like Foxconn go robo-conn and move to 70% automation [0], that's not only a million people being fired, it's a business owning an automated labor force that doesn't employ people, yet produces goods. If we can calculate how much labor these robots do compared to humans, one solutions would be for the government to tax the fuck out of robots to protect jobs and to compensate for rising social service costs (assuming the paranoia over job growth has merit). Of course, that's also what they could have done to counter the market dumping by overseas outsourcing, but they didn't give a fuck. Much automation has also happened in US factories a while ago with bottling and food and high-tech. To the government's credit though, we survived. --- [0] http://www.computerworld.com/article/2941272/emerging-techno... |
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