Re:Foxconn replaces '60,000 factory workers with robots'
by jtmcmc on Wednesday May 25, 2016 @04:12PM
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That is not true at all. We have an entire service economy that is rife for automation. It hasn't been automated yet because it wasn't cost efficient. It is rapidly becoming so.
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Re:Foxconn replaces '60,000 factory workers with robots'
by throwaway049 on Thursday May 26, 2016 @08:27AM
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Car washes in UK recently experienced this effect in reverse: because automated wash machines are capital-intensive they have been partly displaced by very cheap workers, mainly from Eastern Europe, who are allegedly modern day slaves [0]
[0] http://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/dozen-modern-day-car-wash-sl...