[C19fan]

Textile manufacturing has been the bottom rung up the ladder of economic development. Think of Manchester, aka Cottonopolis, during the late Georgian/Victorian era, places like Lowell in Mass, then textiles moved to the South. Many countries in East Asia have first developed producing textiles. These machines and other developments means the ladder is going to be pulled up and countries lagging badly behind might be permanently stuck in a state of underdevelopment; most of Africa. What is going to happen when billions of people have zero value in a job market with AI and robotics?

[Vince Ferrer]

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.

[rightwingintelligentsia]

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.

[Leep]

The first time you see total automation, up close and in person, it is something to see.

[palmer]

What is going to happen when billions of people have zero value in a job market with AI and robotics?

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.

[huldah1776]

Are the shirts all brown? just wondering.

[montag813]

Automated Sewing Robot Can Make Shirts Basically By Itself

SOLUTION: MORE immigration!!!

[bgill]

The cost truly makes a difference—with complete automation, it costs $0.33 to make a shirt. "Around the world," says Tang Xinhong, chairman of Tianyuan Garments, "even the cheapest labour market can't compete with us. I am really excited about this."

Liberal heads will explode because all those little foreign labor kids will be out of jobs and starving again.

[Gen.Blather]

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.

[Opinionated Blowhard]

What is going to happen when billions of people have zero value in a job market with AI and robotics?

[dangerdoc]

I’m afraid that the powers that be will employ them to carry rifles.

Large societal changes are often associated with a blood letting.

[Albion Wilde]

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