Posted on 02/05/2017 1:37:59 AM PST by TigerClaws
After a factory in Dongguan, China, replaced most of its workers with robots, it witnessed a spectacular rise in productivity.
While some of the world’s leaders are obsessed with keeping people out of their country, an unspoken entity is slowly but certainly taking our jobs: robots. It’s been long discussed that robots and computers will start taking our jobs “in the near future” — well that near future is upon us and we’re not really prepared to deal with it. Of course, some jobs are more at risk than others, are few are as threatened as factory jobs. Advertisement
According to Monetary Watch, the Changying Precision Technology Company focuses on the production of mobile phones and uses automated production lines. The factory used to be run by 650 employees, but now just 60 people get the entire job done, while robots take care of the rest. Luo Weiqiang, the general manager, says the number of required employees will drop to 20 at one point. Despite this reduction in staff, not only is the factory producing more equipment (a 250% increase), but it’s also ensuring better quality.
Without a doubt, this is something we’ll be hearing more and more of in the future. Adidas is one of the companies which has already announced a shift towards robot-only factories, and it’s not just factories that will eliminate workers for robots. According to a report created by Dr Carl Benedikt Frey and Associate Professor Michael Osborne from the University of Oxford, there’s an over 90% chance that robots will take over the jobs of (long list ahead): masons, budget analysts, tax examiners and collectors, butchers and meat cutters, retail salespersons, geological and petroleum technicians, hand sewers, abstract searchers, watch repairers, new account clerks, tax preparers, order clerks, loan officers, legal secretaries, radio operators, tellers, hotel and restaurant hostesses, cashiers, real estate brokers, polishing workers, dental technicians, pesticide sprayers, telephone operators, cooks (not chefs), rock splitters, gaming dealers, and many, many more. Yeah, that’s a long list, and it goes on for much longer. Whether we admit it or not, we’re stepping well into the bounds of “robots taking over our jobs” and I’m not sure any economy is able to handle this at the moment.
I’ve got some very mixed feelings about this. Firstly, this is indeed exciting. We’re entering a new age of automation, and technology is truly reaching impressive peaks. The process is better and it’s also more resource efficient, which is also good. I’m also happy that humans don’t have to work repetitive, unchallenging jobs and can instead focus on other things. The problem is … there might not be other things. In fact there most definitely aren’t. Those people are out of a job, and there’s a good chance they’ll have a very difficult time finding new jobs. Simply put, our society isn’t prepared to integrate these people in different jobs and naturally this will cause huge problems.
Interesting. Do you have examples of nations failing due to failure to adopt new technologies? If so, please provide them along with the new technologies they failed to adopt.
The reason why we are not seeing dirt cheap prices for durable goods imported from the 3rd world is labor is not a real big component in the cost of durable goods. The middle men make all the money.
We are destroying the economy for the lower third of the county to save 5% on the retail prices. This is suicide.
Yeah that’s true. That’s the only good thing about our manufacturing leaving here. Union jobs went with it.
Evan at its peak union membership in the manufacturing sector was only 23%.
Oh yeah, that’s right. For some strange reason wars seem to fix a lot of economic problems. We had a big boom after World War II, fixing the depression. I never have figured out where the money comes from to support the war effort.
Really? Wonder why they seemed to have power over private businesses. Maybe it was the media coverage making it seem bigger than it was.
“Interesting. Do you have examples of nations failing due to failure to adopt new technologies? If so, please provide them along with the new technologies they failed to adopt.”
The most striking examples are nations that failed to develop or adopt military technology and thereby were defeated in wars against an opponent with more advanced technologies.
The best example is the Battle of Gravelines where the British developed faster more powerful, more defensible and better armed ships than the Spanish.
The American Civil War provides an example of one society that adopted industrialism against a society that maintained their agricultural based economy.
Not “unexplained beer injury”? Too bad.
I do note that Spain did not cease to exist and still does to this day. I’ll also note that insofar as technology, the former Confederacy was not lacking in this regard. Submarines? Confederates first. Ironclads? Confederates first. No problem with technology or innovation. What it lacked was manufacturing capacity, and it lacked capital.
So do you have any examples of this in the private sector, which is the context in which you made your odd remark?
The auto industry is high profile and is also heavily unionized contrary to the majority of manufacturing which is not. The auto industry has always been scrutinized and used as a whipping boy by the globalists and that image is then projected on the rest of the manufacturing sector thus giving a false picture. I had the same perception until I did my own research. Most manufacturing is done by non union workers that make between $15 and $20/hr.
I remember in my metallurgical engineering classes, a professor saying that in the steel industry, the union workers made more than the engineers. Probably why our steel industry shut down and Japan’s ramped up.
A couple of manufacturing industries, like auto and steel, ruined it for all the other manufacturing industries which were mostly not unionized. The Globalists tricked us into thinking ALL industry was like the steel and auto sector so we’d all get on the Cheap Labor Express. A huge con job.
Interesting. Thank you for sharing your research.
I wasn’t conned, as I’m sure you weren’t. Importing 3rd world poverty at the expense of Americans never made sense.
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