[Swordmaker]

Note, this factory is not an Apple assembly plant.

[the_individual2014]

Something from Deus Ex Human Revolution, the future is here.

[txrefugee]

Someone should ask the Communists in charge what they plan to do with a billion workers when their robots are manning the factories.

[Swordmaker]

Over 60,000 workers displaced by robots at non-Apple FoxConn factory in China. The digital automation revolution is happening far faster than anyone expected. The economic repercussions will be enormous. Robots are NOT consumers of the tech devices they will be making. — PING!

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[TexasM1A]

The few times that I have been over to China, Ningbo, Beijing, Chengdu, all of the people that are in management tell me that it is next to impossible to fire someone.
I wonder if the government has made some new “employment” rules.
And which one of the government officials is getting some cash for the robots.

[Last Dakotan]

Note that the automation is happening over there, not here as the free trade advocates had assured us.

[PCPOET7]

start looking forb a lot of violence world wide as robotic automation spreads. we are looking at a world wide melt down with in society. I have no answers on how to handle this. expect the calls for socialism to get louder as capitalism fails for a good portion of the uneducated and poor. I am not saying that socialism is a workable system. I am just saying that as we need less and less people to produce in society we will have a period of instability as we adjust to what ever the new normal is.