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    It could be UK

    Foxconn replaces '60,000 factory workers with robots' - BBC News

    now if only we invested we could compete.

    Apple and Samsung supplier Foxconn has reportedly replaced 60,000 factory workers with robots.
    One factory has "reduced employee strength from 110,000 to 50,000 thanks to the introduction of robots", a government official told the South China Morning Post.
    Xu Yulian, head of publicity for the Kunshan region, added: "More companies are likely to follow suit."
    China is investing heavily in a robot workforce.
    Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.

    #2
    Yeah, we've never had production lines.

    They'll be pointing at planes next, mark my words.
    The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world that he didn't exist

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      #3
      point is the cost of labour has always been quoted the main reason we can't manufacture in the UK, we are no moving to an era where labour isn't needed so much.
      Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.

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        #4
        Robots, super AI.

        We're doomed!

        And it's not far into the future.

        Once AI can invent better AI, and robots + AI can design and build better robots, it's an exponential ride to extinction.

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          #5
          Who needs robots? We just need 3D printers.

          Once they are working the proletariat can be sent to the gas chambers. Its what the ruling classes want.

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            #6
            They always said IT would take our jobs

            And where do most of us on here work?

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