Foxconn replaces '60,000 factory workers with robots

[ohmylanta1003]

Ljink96 said:

method114 said:

It's like I said in that same thread. This day is coming no matter what. Sooner or later robots will do almsot everything. The only middle class jobs will most likely be fixing those robots. Will most likely reach a time where people will have a guaranteed income and not have to work. I don't really see any other solution because if the rich just continue to make more and more will the rest of us continue to lose jobs there will be a revolt and the rich will lose everything.

I also said that but they wouldn't go to those 60K workers. And you'd have to be trained or educated. Something that doesn't take  a few weeks to do. Soon robots will do everything and WALL-E will come to pass. We'll be so lazy, Americans are already lazy enough, but we'll become more lazy. Once the middle class is wiped out and a revolt happens, it won't end up too well I'm thinking. The gradient of poverty to wealth will diminish and there will only be poor or rich. Many investors are saying this including owner of Berkshire Hathaway and billionaire, Warren Buffet.

 

ohmylanta1003 said:

How can you be so naive? Do you realize the conditions that these workers were working in? They literally became fucking machines doing these jobs, and it was driving a large portion of the population literally insane. This is a better way. And this is the future.

ALL 60K OF THEM? I doubt all of them wanted out. The conditions are poor yes. But for some, this was their only way of income. It's greed. Why can't people see the underlying reason behind all of this? True, technology is supposed to make lives easier but once the human contact is taken out of that equation...what's the use? Yes, people did commit suicide, I know the backstory of Foxconn but this reaches far beyond Foxconn. If China is doing it then believe me the US isn't far behind and that my friend will be hell on earth.

You think Carrier moving its jobs from Indiana to Mexico caused a mess, just wait for the Robots to take over. The ratio from robot to human won't be the same. You think they'll install 60K robots? Are you insane? No, they're gonna install a few hundred to do what 60K people could do. The Cotton Gin is a prime example of this. What used to take hundreds of people to do, now took 1 machine and one operator. Maybe 2 but you get the point. That's going to be 100 robots that do work of 60,000 people. You can't hire 60,000 people to do matinence work on 100 robots. And that's just China. If America goes robot crazy... God help us all.

You're being silly. Factories should attempt to replace humans that are performing mundane tasks with robots as much as they can. They've been doing it for fucking decades. Why is this any different? We've been automating processes forever. This is just more automation. There's nothing wrong with any of this. And I'm not saying Foxconn should offer jobs to these 60,000 people. Most of them will lose their job, and that's okay. That's life, that's the economy, that's progression.