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Cheaper Robots, Fewer Workers (Video and Article)
NY Times ^
| 4/24/15
| Jonah M. Kessel and Taige Jensen
Posted on 04/24/2015 1:13:50 PM PDT by Enlightened1
China faces rising labor costs and a shortage of workers. But a government project called replacing humans with robots is trying to change the face of the work force in Guangdong Province.
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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Computers/Internet; Science; Society
KEYWORDS: china; humans; replacing; robots
To: Enlightened1
To: Enlightened1
a government project called replacing humans with robots Don't they do PC in China? Shouldn't that be something like "The Human Leisure Time Liberation Project"?
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posted on
04/24/2015 1:17:48 PM PDT
by
ansel12
(LEGAL immigrants, 30 million 1980-2012, continues to remake the nation's electorate for democrats)
To: ansel12
Hey, we all know people with no means of making a living just quietly go away. What could go wrong?
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posted on
04/24/2015 1:19:53 PM PDT
by
Wolfie
To: Wolfie
Still need to maintain our Mechanical Overlords, the robots.
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posted on
04/24/2015 1:21:03 PM PDT
by
Cvengr
( Adversity in life & death is inevitable; Stress is optional through faith in Christ.)
To: Enlightened1
How is it they have a shortage of workers? Is it like our shortage which really isn’t?
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posted on
04/24/2015 1:21:05 PM PDT
by
Rusty0604
To: Enlightened1
To: Wolfie
I support robots and automation, but the starkness of the (translated) language was surprising.
a government project called replacing humans with robots
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posted on
04/24/2015 1:23:10 PM PDT
by
ansel12
(LEGAL immigrants, 30 million 1980-2012, continues to remake the nation's electorate for democrats)
To: ansel12
If we can teach the robots to buy stuff, it might all work out.
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posted on
04/24/2015 1:23:57 PM PDT
by
Wolfie
To: Wolfie
Why?
If you want to kill an economy and human advancement, then freeze all work in place today, whenever “today” is, and keep humans doing work they don’t need to be doing.
On which day do we end work place automation and freeze progression, 1840, 1880, 1910, 1940, or 1950, 1980, 2010, upon reading this article in 2015?
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posted on
04/24/2015 1:30:50 PM PDT
by
ansel12
(LEGAL immigrants, 30 million 1980-2012, continues to remake the nation's electorate for democrats)
To: ansel12
“If you see it when you go to a bank you use the ATM, you don’t go to a bank teller. Or you go to the airport and you use a kiosk instead of checking in at the gate,” -Barry Obama lamenting automation.
To: Organic Panic
Like when you see a congressman looking baffled at elevator buttons, as he wonders where the uniformed operator is.
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posted on
04/24/2015 1:39:32 PM PDT
by
ansel12
(LEGAL immigrants, 30 million 1980-2012, continues to remake the nation's electorate for democrats)
To: Wolfie
The market self corrects for that.
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posted on
04/24/2015 2:18:39 PM PDT
by
Borges
To: Enlightened1
I'm pretty sure that the Power Elite want to trim back the population so that all the right people live on 100 acre estates, with a full complement of robot staff to wait on them and trim their gardens -- while the cities are populated with an elite society of boffins who keep exploring advanced technology and basically keep things moving forward. There will be no poor people. Total US population? 20 million or so.
It's just a question of more automation and more population control. By whatever means necessary.
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posted on
04/24/2015 3:33:10 PM PDT
by
ClearCase_guy
("Victim" -- some people eagerly take on the label because of the many advantages that come with it.)
To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...
That makes sense, the Chinese haven't had success trying to build stuff cheaper in other countries (in Latin America, Africa) to feed their home market.
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posted on
04/24/2015 4:10:19 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(What do we want? REGIME CHANGE! When do we want it? NOW!)
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