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Re:Foxconn replaces '60,000 factory workers with robots' by unabst on Wednesday May 25, 2016 @04:12PM (#11772704)
Seriously, we could have robots taking care of us. Free food delivery and a basic income for just being a citizen. Unfortunately this undermines much of what drives innovation and hence the economy as we know it... so though the math seems to work:

automated robots = free labor = us not having to do it + receive their products

... it just isn't that straight forward. Currently it's heading towards:

automated robots = free labor for business owners = us not having those jobs + them still getting what we would have produced

Re:Foxconn replaces '60,000 factory workers with robots' by kspaans on Wednesday May 25, 2016 @05:12PM (#11773148)
When everyone has lots of free time no one will innovate new forms of entertainment. /s