Foxconn To Replace Humans Labor with 1.2 Million Robots - Polidicks

[QUOTE=RichyZ;31571912]you need people to program and manufacture these robots as well as maintain and extract the metals required to make them[/QUOTE] I'm sure the average Chinese manual laborer will be able to repair robots. Oh maybe they'll be better off in the iron mines extracting materials.

[QUOTE=Pepin;31597065]Assume two scenarios. In one the tax rate is 0%. In the other the tax rate is 50%. Is it right to assume that more people would start a business in scenario 2? Is it right to assume that there wouldn't be more people starting up business in scenario 1? If you have to give 50% of your money away at the end of every year (not how taxes work I know), are you going to start to doubt whether you'll be successful? Doesn't someone who is paying no tax have more incentive to take risks? Or I could flip that around, in scenario 2, don't business owners have to put a lot more thought into their investments to figure if they'd work out? Wouldn't a business in scenario 1 get rich, expand, and get richer faster than scenario 2? [/QUOTE] Well for 1 if there are less poor people out there then there would be more people who could start a business and no someone isn't going to decide to not start a business simply because they will make slightly less if it becomes successful. Why would a business put more thought into investments if they didn't taxed? They are still trying to make the most amount of money possible. But we are derailing the thread so.

You know something, I just realized something. 1.2 million robots. That's half as many robots as there are people in New Mexico (my state). They're planning on replacing an entire state's worth of labor with machines. Fucking hell.

[QUOTE=Luuper;31571821][URL]http://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/industrial-robots/foxconn-to-replace-human-workers-with-one-million-robots[/URL] [B]The Robot in Question[/B]: [B]ABB Frida[/B] [video=youtube;70V6J4Y8hnc]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=70V6J4Y8hnc&feature=player_embedded[/video][/QUOTE] Next 3 years? 2014: Robots replace human workers at Foxconn. 2016: Apple tries to replicate the robots at Foxconn. 2017: Apple sues Foxconn for the design of the robot, or for some dumb reason, like they came up with the robot idea first. I would like a job, but this is awesome.

There are many parallels in the Manna story to the late 18th century. At a business, a forward thinking man implements new machinery to help in his business. (Richard Awkright and his water powered spinning mill) Meanwhile new researchers work on machinery that directly will get rid of human labour, demonstrating it as well. (James Watt and his steam engines) A decade or two later some of those inventions are combined to give a highly flexible machine that works very efficiently without need for humans. (The steam engine, the spinning mill machines, new metalworking and infrastructure in the form of canals and improved roads) Production skyrockets, and many other businesses are quick to catch on. (The rest of England throughout the late 18th and early 19th centuries) People are out-competed by the machines, some work to smash them up. (Luddites) However the British army was sent in to quash the revolts, and some factories fortified themselves. A new class of people emerges that have it slightly better off than before but still have terrible lives. (The proletariat) The men who own the machines become very powerful indeed, and influence politics. (1832 great reform act, which granted the vote to landless rich men, and started Britain on the path towards a democracy) Meanwhile somebody brings stories of utopia based around the new industrial world. (Karl Marx, some factory owners made factory towns of varying qualities that were pleasant to live in) Most interesting indeed!

[QUOTE=J!NX;31571882]I agree, but we also sort of need them to have jobs.[/QUOTE] You can't work if you are dead. [editline]11th August 2011[/editline] [QUOTE=ForcedDj;31664879]Next 3 years? 2014: Robots replace human workers at Foxconn. 2016: Apple tries to replicate the robots at Foxconn. 2017: Apple sues Foxconn for the design of the robot, or for some dumb reason, like they came up with the robot idea first. I would like a job, but this is awesome.[/QUOTE] 2018: Apple sues 20th Century Fox for the movie "iRobot" even though it came out first.

[QUOTE=SSBMX;31668716]You can't work if you are dead. [editline]11th August 2011[/editline] 2018: Apple sues 20th Century Fox for the movie "iRobot" even though it came out first.[/QUOTE] 2020: Driven by their success of suing 20th Century Fox, Apple has Isaac Asimov exhumed and then reanimated using special iNecron technology, suing him for his 1950 collection of short stories [b]I, Robot[/b] due to similarity in name to their products.

[QUOTE=Jack_Thompson;31668816]2020: Driven by their success of suing 20th Century Fox, Apple has Isaac Asimov exhumed and then reanimated using special iNecron technology, suing him for his 1950 collection of short stories [b]I, Robot[/b] due to similarity in name to their products.[/QUOTE] 2022: Apple sues grocery stores for labeling apples as apples and demands them being labeled as "fruit".

They cant stop the future.

Great, now robots can dance better than us? What the fuck?

-wrong thread, meant for that robot furry aspie republic thread-

2015: Apple goes bankrupt due to excessive douchbaggery and their zombie like fanbase finaly seeing the shit they are buying for what it is.

[QUOTE=chrishind10;31672607]2015: Apple goes bankrupt due to excessive douchbaggery and their zombie like fanbase finaly seeing the shit they are buying for what it is.[/QUOTE] What sort of utopian world do you think we're living in?

[QUOTE=Jack_Thompson;31672673]What sort of utopian world do you think we're living in?[/QUOTE] I can only dream :(