[Borges]

It’s coming...

[knittnmom]

And all 3 will be H1B hires.

[2ndDivisionVet]

Robot hamburger factory makes 360 Gourmet Burgers every hour...
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3100817/posts

[GeronL]

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[Blood of Tyrants]

3D printers are good for manufacturing prototypes, but high speed printers they are not.

[freeandfreezing]

We'll have 100 high-tech 3D printers running 24 hours, 7 days a week," said CloudDDM's founder Mitch Free. And it'll need just three employees: one for each of the eight-hour shifts

Sounds like a poor business strategy to me. If one employee per shift is enough to manage the machinery, load the raw materials, unload and inspect the finished parts, and ship them out the door then the volume of production for the machines must be very low. Probably less than one part per machine per shift.

For that much capital tied up in machinery I would expect to see such a volume of parts being made that multiple employees would be required just to manage the shipping.

[woweeitsme]

ping

[minnesota_bound]

3D Guitar
http://www.odd.org.nz/steampunk.html

[PGR88]

3 workers, with large capital investments, and human ingenuity, can now produce tens of millions of dollars worth of output.

compare that to the average worker of the middle age - what could 3 workers producer with their labor - a few tons of potatoes?

Or compare that to a similar work 50 years ago.

So where does all the extra income from this productivity go? At the same time, why have real wages been stagnant for the last 45 years?

IMO, its been taken by government and also the Federal Reserve. Printed fiat money and government debt mean productivity goes to those handling printed dollars and debt first (ie. Wall Street and financialization) The remainder is used by government for the welfare state, or is stolen by inflation, zero interest, and currency debasement.

The only way to restore the middle class (and also end progressive redistributionist government) is to return to gold-backed money.

[RandallFlagg]

Imagine how many podcasts and audiobooks those three can listen to.

WOW!

[RKBA Democrat]

This is just womderful news. Now if they can get it down to one employee, that’ll really be something!

For those who have not had a business, the point where you start losing money is when you hire your first employee.

[TontoKowalski]

Good for this individual entrepreneur and his investors.

He's cut way back on the bother of all the labor regulations and Obamacare mandates.

[Don Corleone]

Go UNION and watch those figures reverse!

[St_Thomas_Aquinas]

Machines enhance human productivity?

[tbw2]

The Great Shift Toward Automation and the Future of Employment
http://tamarawilhite.hubpages.com/hub/The-Great-Shift-and-the-Future-of-Employment

[Steve0113]

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