Pretty fancy but can that “factory” make hamburgers and French fries? Hold the pickle.
342 Billion was our trade deficit with China just last year, and it’s still increasing every year.
Donald Trump is the only one, saying a single word about it.
China’s economic advantage in manufacturing was cheap labor. If they can build an automated factory, the same factory can be built anywhere else for similar costs.
I recently worked at one of the most automated facilities in the United States. It was amazing. Then, they lost their major contract. Instead of keeping all the robotic equipment they tore it out and scrapped it. You’d think that they’d keep it and solicit new business based on their proven capability to produce high volume, near perfect products. No. Because, the local county government has a tax on machinery based on the original purchase price. That tax ran into the millions. Government to the rescue, once more.
Incidentally, this company had hired hundreds of people off the welfare roles to support all that automation. This stuff doesn’t load itself. The machinery does not oil, grease or clean itself, either. Most of those folks lost their jobs too. All that potential lost. You can’t even work a deal where they temporarily suspend the tax. Government is not that flexible and, the official involved don’t care.
No no no. Surely this can’t be.
Even though we sent production to fully modern factories in China when I was in manufacturing in the 90s, I have debated with Freepers for years who insist Chinese factories are one hundred percent manual sweatshops with child slave laborers.
They could never be a serious world contender because China was so backward.
Or these Freepers are idiots who wholey bought into an image crafted by the communist government to sedate them to the true extent of China’s rise.
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This is the kind of stuff China (the red army), tycoons and socialists love.
Someone makes a boat load of money without labor costs and the government gets a dependent citizen population that can not even eat without government.
Total control of the citizen population IMO.
The robots work for the people and with no way to have all humans accessing the possibility to rise to something greater individually, they instead have to all learn to live poorly. Elite government class excluded of course.
They’ve got unmanned cities, malls, etc. Brand new ghost towns. wow :~/