Foxconn To Replace Half A Million Employees With Robots

[DeSwiss]

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- An idea coming to a factory/office/classroom/(insert job type here:_________) near you......

[RKP5637]

1. Our notions of economies and job creation are obsolete for

the twenty-first century. All of this will happen here across all of the areas you mentioned and more. The paradigm has to change, but it will be reactive rather than proactive.

[DeSwiss]

3. I know.....

http://www.thevenusproject.com/a-new-social-design/resource-based-economy">~ The Venus Project ~

[RKP5637]

6. Yes, thanks, exactly ...

"Many people believe that there is too much technology in the world today, and that technology is the major cause of our environmental pollution. This is not the case. It is the abuse and misuse of technology that should be our major concern. In a more humane civilization, instead of machines displacing people they would shorten the workday, increase the availability of goods and services, and lengthen vacation time. If we utilize new technology to raise the standard of living for all people, then the infusion of machine technology would no longer be a threat."

~ The Venus Project - http://www.thevenusproject.com/a-new-social-design/resource-based-economy

[On the Road]

2. Then That's Good, Right?

Eliminating all those sweatshop jobs?

[Lars77]

4. Or they could just give people working conditions that doesen't make them suicidal.

But yeah robots are better. Fuck humans. Robots don't kill themselves.

[Atypical Liberal]

10. Someone has to build the robots... n/t

[DeSwiss]

5. It is as long as the workers.....

...losing their jobs don't end up destitute and starving. But given humanity's track-record I wouldn't count on it.

[RKP5637]

7. That was my thought too when I first saw this, that now the workers well

might be tossed back to villages to starve.

[blank space]

8. Most of china is villages -

they do not starve. They thrive. It is you who is starving in your city - believe me.

[Lars77]

11. If that is true, why do they migrate in the millions to cities? nt

[RKP5637]

13. And I think it's going to get far worse here. I was listening to RT today and

as was said, and I agree, the rest of the world knows where America is headed, especially as the dollar devalues, but the masses of America still don't get what's going on, they are the last to know and our propagandistic MSM here is certainly not going to tell them nor TPTB.

[TheeHazelnut]

9. I had a professor in college who said this will lead to the next round of concentration camps

Too many people not enough work due to employers seeking maximum efficiency. The "surplus population" has to go somewhere... Yikes.

[Lars77]

12. The concentration camps already exist. They're jails, which are now also privatised.

It's where people go when they have to resort to crime to pay their medical bills etc.

[RKP5637]

14. I agree with your professor, many just don't think it can happen here. Years ago

my sociology professor said similar, that we will reach a point wherein there are not enough jobs to sustain the population, that out entire methodology of what economies/jobs mean will become obsolete.

As another poster said, it's already begun here with privatization of prisons. There's big money in prisons and I think we will see if happening more and more, also privatization of police.

I really don't see a rosy scenario in the years to come, and I certainly have not heard any politicians with solutions than their typical bullshit rhetoric.

[Red Knight]

15. I drive a forklift

and I used to think that job would be safe.

Uh...not so much.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lDyi9Yipt7c&feature=related