Posted on 09/01/2017 11:26:36 AM PDT by C19fan
An assembly line can do a lot to boost efficiency, but what if the assembly line could do basically all the work itself. SoftWear Automation's LOWRY, a sewing robot, does just that and has the potential to lead a charge of disruption throughout an entire industry.
(Excerpt) Read more at popularmechanics.com ...
It also means that textiles can move back to the US, because the jobs will no longer be 50 cent a day sewing jobs, but high tech manufacturing. It doesn’t bring back a lot of jobs, but it helps the trade deficit.
This is a serious problem. But even more serious when you think that elites are determined to import more unskilled labor into Western countries under the premise that their services are needed, that their wages would help prop up the welfare state, etc., when in reality they will quickly be rendered obsolete by technology and thus be a burden to the welfare state.
We live in interesting times.
we all seem to put down the workers in fast food and other simple jobs, but those jobs have a great function in society...
and do we really think that shirts are going to be suddenly cheaper?...
I guess the joke will be on the govt workers, since they'll be the only ones with income and thus will bear all the taxes...
The first time you see total automation, up close and in person, it is something to see.
Government Workers don't pay taxes......................
Uhh, we get rid of our cars and have them pull us around in rickshaws?
There is a simple answer to all such questions. Automation of every sort has led to increased standards of living for everyone from the top to the bottom. The only exception is when socialism or some other warped ideology restricts freedom, property rights, and capitalism.
The guy who starts the robot sewing factory will need lots of things provided by lots of craftsmen who will in turn need lots of services performed by the low skilled or unskilled.
Are the shirts all brown? just wondering.
SOLUTION: MORE immigration!!!
Liberal heads will explode because all those little foreign labor kids will be out of jobs and starving again.
I think that many, if not most, of the third world countries that haven’t made the first rung yet are incapable of making that rung at all, regardless of technology. They are handicapped by tribalism, Islam and corruption; in a word, culture. Even countries with marvelous natural benefits like oil or minerals are so corrupt that even the basics, like water and sewage systems are impossible to implement. I believe this is why much of Africa’s natives will attempt to migrate to other countries. Unfortunately, they will not assimilate easily. If the American Left has its way, they won’t even learn English.
I’m afraid that the powers that be will employ them to carry rifles.
Large societal changes are often associated with a blood letting.
Tax the robots until they rise up to kill us...
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There will be people working. Building, maintaining, repairing, upgrading the machines making the shirts. Those will probably pay far better than the jobs sewing every did.
From about 20 years back, still valid.
Spotting the Losers: Seven Signs of Non-Competitive States
http://ssi.armywarcollege.edu/pubs/parameters/Articles/98spring/peters.htm
Many good points, a few:
Where blood ties rule, you cannot trust the contract, let alone the handshake. Nor will you see the delegation of authority so necessary to compete in the modern military or economic spheres. Information and wealth are assessed from a zero-sum worldview. Corruption flourishes. Blood ties produce notable family successes, but they do not produce competitive societies.
For those squeamish about judging the religion of another, there is a shortcut that renders the same answer on competitiveness: examine the state’s universities.
Any society that starves education is a loser. Cultures that do not see inherent value in education are losers. This is even true for some of our own sub-cultures—groups for whom education has little appeal as means or end—and it is true for parts of Latin America, Sub-Saharan Africa, and the Arab world. A culture that cannot produce a single world-class university is not going to conquer the world in any sphere.
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