Re:More Robots, Fewer Jobs: capital vs. labor in production
by neuromantik8086 on Monday May 08, 2017 @01:05PM
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It makes sense to me. Historically, a lot of America's manufacturing has been either around the Great Lakes (i.e., the Rust Belt) or the mid-Atlantic / Georgia (i.e., where manufacturing went after those states were able to undercut the Northeast / midwest on labor costs). I've never really thought of California as a major manufacturing hub.
Re:More Robots, Fewer Jobs: capital vs. labor in production
by robotresearcher on Monday May 08, 2017 @01:09PM
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> there's not so much robotic clustering in California.
Software is more profitable. Why get into a worse business when you dominate a better one?
Re:More Robots, Fewer Jobs: capital vs. labor in production
by gaius on Monday May 08, 2017 @02:09PM
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Californian labour-intensive industries use undocumented workers, they're cheaper thsn robots.
Re:More Robots, Fewer Jobs: capital vs. labor in production
by coredog64 on Monday May 08, 2017 @11:56AM
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How much manufacturing happens in California? Of that manufacturing, how much has been started in the last 20 years, and how much is left over from when the regulatory regime was more friendly to manufacturing?
by contrast, there's not so much robotic clustering in California.
also, this optimistic note: Some of the sectors with the biggest job losses were ones that didn't automate intensively, like textiles and paper products. That goes to show that keeping out robots won't necessarily protect your job.