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Re:Foxconn replaces '60,000 factory workers with robots' by cosmolev on Wednesday May 25, 2016 @05:36PM (#11773326)
Jobs like creating, progamming, maintaining those robots?
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Re:Foxconn replaces '60,000 factory workers with robots' by unprepare on Thursday May 26, 2016 @11:28AM (#11778658)
So if i replace 100 workers with 1 robot, and it takes 1 programmer and 1 maintenance technician to maintain said robot - I've created 2 jobs by destroying 100.

This is what you are proposing as the solution to the problem of job shortages?

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