[crdoconnor]

I noticed a flurry of Foxconn propaganda, reported in all the usual western media, that tried to make this argument about 7 years ago. They said that they had robots that would shortly render something like 800,000 factory workers obsolete.

It coincided with a period of worker unrest in their factories.

They didn't though. They now employ something like 400,000 more people than they did.

It was just a ploy to terrify Shenzhen factory workers.

The apparent abysmal failure of their "project" to replace all those people seems to have gone 100% unnoticed in the business press. Foxconn just forgot to issue that press release I guess.

I think back to that story and subsequent non-story every time I read the latest news article about "the robot takeover of our jobs that's just around the corner".