Foxconn Factories' Future: Fewer Humans, More Robots

jfruh writes: Foxconn, which supplies much of Apple's manufacturing muscle and has been criticized for various labor sins, is now moving to hire employees who won't complain because they're robots. The company expects 70 percent of its assembly line work to be robot-driven within three years.

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Foxconn Factories' Future: Fewer Humans, More Robo

[ganjadude]

Foxconn Factories' Future: Fewer Humans, More Robots

Manufacturing Future: Fewer Humans, More Robots

this, is pretty much what we have all known for quite a long time. as tech gets better, menial jobs become useless to humans because robots do it better.

Also water is wet. news at 11

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[rsilvergun]

Right, but the conversation that's being had around this is what are we going to do with all these people that we don't need anymore. Sure, we can say that the economy will catch up, but that might take 50, 60 years. In the meantime we'll have 2 or 3 lost generations who live in terrifying abject poverty. It'd be nice if this time around we did something about that...