Re:Robot sewing machines could make 'made in China' obsolete
by daliusd on Monday June 11, 2012 @07:35AM
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Science/Technology is not area where you try once, fail and never try again. Sooner or later it will be automated because there are lot of benefits: productivity, saving of nature and human resources and etc.
People in developing countries will figure out other ways to earn money. If people don't have food or money that usually because of stupid dictatorships (long-term) or not having protection against nature crisis (short-term, compare earthquake in Japan vs Haiti) but not because of lack of work.
The article is poorly researched.
As if the strategy of automation hasn't been tried in various areas to get back or keep jobs. In some areas this works, in others it hasn't. It also has been tried in this industry.
China is also not even the cheapest place. Clothing now comes from Vietnam, Philippines and other asian countries.
I'm also not sure making manual labor in that area obsolete is actually useful. Somehow the people in the developing countries also want to earn some money.