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AnthonyW86 on 25 May 2016

One other point of concern i never hear anyone about is what a huge waste of resources these robots are. Instead of having people work they invest huge resources in creating and running these robots and let the production capacity of all these people go to waste by making them unemployed.

Companies need to realise that this is short therm thinking and it's going to hurt them in the long run. Less employed people means less consumers/lower revenue and less tax income from salaris and higher costs for social welfare means corporate taxes will go up. In the end they gain nothing.



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Barkley on 25 May 2016

Southpark next season, "dey tuck err jurbs"



ohmylanta1003 on 25 May 2016

Everyone here needs to seriously step back and consider the immense benefits this will eventually have. Our world will become a better one when we don't have fucking slaves in factories working for little pay in shitty conditions repeating the same task over and over for God knows how many hours. It's better this way.



I bet the Wii U would sell more than 15M LTD by the end of 2015. He bet it would sell less. I lost.

AnthonyW86 on 25 May 2016
ohmylanta1003 said:
Everyone here needs to seriously step back and consider the immense benefits this will eventually have. Our world will become a better one when we don't have fucking slaves in factories working for little pay in shitty conditions repeating the same task over and over for God knows how many hours. It's better this way.

It only becomes beneficial if society as a whole becomes a shared owner of all the production capacity. As long as these factories are privately owned and capitalism rules this is going to ceeate major poverty.



AnthonyW86 on 25 May 2016
spurgeonryan said:
ohmylanta003 said:
Everyone here needs to seriously step back and consider the immense benefits this will eventually have. Our world will become a better one when we don't have fucking slaves in factories working for little pay in shitty conditions repeating the same task over and over for God knows how many hours. It's better this way.

Yes, in China those slaves will move on to better things, like eating bamboo as they are forced to become tentless or homeless. Much better, but at least they will be free.

It's ironic in a terrible way really, China has been moving more an dmore towards capitalism, while it's communism that's more suited for the automised future.



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method114 on 25 May 2016
Ljink96 said:
Here we go, lack of human respect and understanding. 60K people out of work. Unable to provide for their families let alone themselves. How cruel and greedy. True, a business is made to make money, not break even. But Foxconn wasn't hurting for money last time I checked.

"It's cheaper to buy a $35,000 robotic arm than it is to hire an employee who is inefficient, making $15 an hour bagging French fries," he said.

Once again, as I posted in a similar thread, thinking this way will destroy the gradient from rich to poor and there will only be rich and poor people. No middle class. And man, what a corrupt world that's gonna be.

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.



LudicrousSpeed on 25 May 2016

I, for one, welcome our new robot overlords.



deskpro2k3 on 25 May 2016

simply boycott those companies.



ohmylanta1003 on 25 May 2016
spurgeonryan said:
ohmylanta003 said:
Everyone here needs to seriously step back and consider the immense benefits this will eventually have. Our world will become a better one when we don't have fucking slaves in factories working for little pay in shitty conditions repeating the same task over and over for God knows how many hours. It's better this way.

Yes, in China those slaves will move on to better things, like eating bamboo as they are forced to become tentless or homeless. Much better, but at least they will be free.

I'm sure that's exactly how it'll go. Lol. We have to start somewhere. Jobs phase out. Skills phase out. That's how this world progresses. Think of the people who used to be paid because they could write a book (scribes). They're gone. Did people complain about the printing press? Lol. No! And even if they did at the time, no one is complaining now, because this world wouldn't be even remotely the same without that progression. Progress needs to and will always occur. In the short run, it is detrimental to a small group of people. I'm the long run, it is beneficial to everyone.



I bet the Wii U would sell more than 15M LTD by the end of 2015. He bet it would sell less. I lost.

hershel_layton on 25 May 2016
WolfpackN64 said:
JRPGfan said:

They where (forced)working them 16hours a day, with really low pay.

They had to install those suicide nets to catch people jumping off roofs, because of how unhappy they where working there.

If they treat the worker that bad, and it still pays off to not use them... theres no hope for the avg joe worker.

 

"Economists have issued dire warnings about how automation will affect the job market, with one report, from consultants Deloitte in partnership with Oxford University, suggesting that 35% of jobs were at risk over the next 20 years."


World economies will collapse due to this stuff.

And it's not like Foxconn or Apple weren't making enough money. Funny thing is that Foxconn is a Taiwanese company. Chinese companies like Oppo have better pay and better means in their factories.

Fuck Apple. Overpriced shitty products that I'll never buy again. Even if they didn't go to robots, I'd still hate them.

 

$1000 for a 1.3 GHz computer? Hah, good one. Love to see the justification for this from apple fanboys

 

Edit: I am interested to see what Apple does in response to this. They'll probably just hide this though, act like their workers are treated perfectly



 

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