What I Learned From Making Hot Sauce at Scale in China

Re:What I Learned From Making Hot Sauce at Scale in China by seanmcdirmid on Saturday October 27, 2018 @10:36PM (#18318841)

> If you call to build a factory, there will be millions of people wanting jobs. These jobs are not good jobs and are labour intensive, but the desire for jobs outweighs any other concern.

China actually has labor shortages in certain places at certain times, yes, even for those factories. Also, wages have been going up, meaning labor is getting more expensive as surpluses are tapped out. It isn’t infinite, especially in 2018 compared to 1998.

Add on to that china’s coming demographic cliff, and automation is obviously going to have to make up the difference.

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Re:What I Learned From Making Hot Sauce at Scale in China by barkingcat on Monday October 29, 2018 @02:16PM (#18329755)

This is a very western oriented viewpoint. If it comes to that, the Chinese solution is not automation. It's to allow more marriages and have more children.

Revise the now defunct childbirth policy to lean the other way (ie social program to have more kids) and China can have a fertility spurt that can increase the size of the country by two or three US's in 2 generations. There's the labour to take care of the demographic cliff. They can also be ready work in healthcare to take care of the aging population in about 15-18 years.

Voila.

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