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Re:Foxconn replaces '60,000 factory workers with robots' by bunnymancer on Wednesday May 25, 2016 @02:02PM (#11771764)
Still no cure for $1300/month rent for a 2bed apartment two hours east of Cleveland...
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Re:Foxconn replaces '60,000 factory workers with robots' by geodel on Wednesday May 25, 2016 @02:44PM (#11772098)
Exactly right. I feel housing/medical expenses remain independent of all the gain productivity. With PEs buying large housing stock in markets and hospitals keep getting increasingly larger and integrated I do not see what would force them to not extract maximum possible money irrespective of the cost to them.
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Re:Foxconn replaces '60,000 factory workers with robots' by shenanigoat on Wednesday May 25, 2016 @05:05PM (#11773085)
Yup. Trinkets for everyone. Health care and nice digs for the elites only.
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