It's ingenious, highly effective, and exactly what we should do.

Ex-McKinsey executives will kybosh it and hire minimum wage workers to avoid shelling out for the CapEx.

It's the American way.

A few years ago that would be true. These days, minimum wage workers are getting harder to find.

But that's only if the search is constrained to immediate locality. The "great" thing about this concept is that we can hire minimum wage workers overseas to control robots in America (latency be damned).

Once does not simply damn latency. Latency damns you.

If you read the national political news.

Hundreds of politicians and government officials are working feverishly to "fix" this.

For them, technological progress is the enemy because it disrupts the social hierarchy.

We must have minimum wage workers, to maintain the social hierarchy.

If the people steering the robots are located in a different country than the work side, would they need a work visa?

That's a good question. It's already not that uncommon to do surgeries remotely using surgical robots, operated by a surgeon on another continent. I wonder if the labor laws have caught up to this yet.

Uh, it's been done a few times as a neat tech demo, but the reality of surgery is that you really need a surgeon there, in the room, who is capable of doing the surgery as an open procedure if the robotic attempt fails, or if they hit a bleeding source.

And you need someone who's qualified to place the ports in the body in the first place.

In practically all cases, if someone needs a highly specialized surgeon, it's logistically much simpler to take the patient to them.