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Re:The world needs at least 600M new jobs in the next decade... by vijayr on Tuesday October 13, 2015 @07:24PM (#10384138)
They went to robots in China.

One interesting thing to watch in the next few decades would be this - if more and more robots are going to be used, then countries like China will no longer have the advantage of cheap labor. A robot in the US is more or less going to cost the same as a robot in China, so there are not many reasons to send jobs elsewhere.

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Re:The world needs at least 600M new jobs in the next decade... by rinze on Tuesday October 13, 2015 @09:01PM (#10384457)
> A robot in the US is more or less going to cost the same as a robot in China

I have no data to back this up, but my intuition tells me that a robot made in the US (with American workers) will still cost more to make than the same robot made in China. As I say, just a hunch (I don't know how much proportion of robotic work is involved in building a robot, though I imagine more and more every day), so let's wait and see.

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Re:The world needs at least 600M new jobs in the next decade... by vijayr on Tuesday October 13, 2015 @09:45PM (#10384551)
In that case, all the American companies have to do is make the robots in China but have the factories that use those robots in the U.S :p
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