Technology is relentless.

The following are companies who have products made by Foxcomm:

Acer Inc. (Taiwan)
Amazon.com (United States)[23]
In 2011, Amazon and Foxconn formed a joint-design manufacturing company. The move was meant to produce an Amazon branded smartphone sometime in 2012.[24]
Apple Inc. (United States)[25]
ASRock (Taiwan)
Asus (Taiwan)
Barnes & Noble (United States)
Cisco (United States)
Dell (United States)
EVGA Corporation (United States)
Hewlett-Packard (United States)[26]
Intel (United States)
IBM (United States)
Lenovo (China)
Logitech (Switzerland)
Microsoft (United States)
MSI (Taiwan)
Motorola (United States)
Netgear (United States)
Nintendo (Japan)
Nokia (Finland)[25]
Panasonic (Japan)
Philips (Netherlands)
Samsung (South Korea)
Sharp (Japan)
Sony Ericsson (Japan/Sweden)[27]
Toshiba (Japan)
Vizio (United States)

Offshoring millennialist employment and now blaming them for an industrial revolution worlds away.

“If I were reincarnated I would wish to be returned to earth as a killer virus to lower human population levels.”
― Philip, Duke of Edinburgh

It's a recurring theme from the elite class that the world is way over populated. How you go from a - b I'm sure they are working on it.

If the majority of the population is without money, there will be fewer customers for the shit that rolls out of the factories. Fewer customers for Coca Cola, Exxon, G.M., G.E. and so forth.

How many Rollls Royces can Donald, Jamie, Mark, Bill and rMoney use?

and then you will see the wealthy fighting to see who ends up on top

n/t

Enough for war, albeit I believe Google is working to automate that as well.

How will their productivity be used?

As Stephen Hawking mentioned recently: “If machines produce everything we need, the outcome will depend on how things are distributed. Everyone can enjoy a life of luxurious leisure if the machine-produced wealth is shared, or most people can end up miserably poor if the machine-owners successfully lobby against wealth redistribution. So far, the trend seems to be toward the second option, with technology driving ever-increasing inequality.”

Seems like the second option to me. “There Is No Alternative” (TINA).

For example, will they also need suicide nets?

No OSHA it's a wet dream for some.

Who knew?

Robots replacing human workers is bad right? I got news for you. It's happening in almost every segment of manufacturing, not just 'millennial's toys'

The tough assembly line type work is grueling to be sure, but I know a number of friends - in this country- who would be happy for any paycheck these days.

by authors Robert W. McChesney and John Nichols.



Humanity is on the verge of its darkest hour—or its greatest moment.
The consequence of the Technological Revolution is about to hit hard: employment opportunities will collapse across the board as new technologies replace labor. Moribund capitalism and talk of market solutions won't answer this crisis. In this brave new world, the power of the people to demand a smarter and more humane economic and environmental policy will be diminished as fear trumps reason and surrender replaces hope.
Unless the tremendous benefits of technological progress are employed to serve the whole of humanity, rather than to enrich a handful of monopolists, the social contract will not be undermined—it will be broken. Americans cannot let corporate CEOs and billionaire campaign donors define their future. "PEOPLE GET READY: The Fight Against a Jobless Economy and a Citizenless Democracy" reveals that the choices made in the next few years will decide not just how technology is utilized and how economies are organized, but whether democracy will cease to function in any meaningful sense. More, http://www.democraticunderground.com/1016152630

Can stash their loot into foundations, which are extremely effective at affecting public policy. In gates case world wide policies.

Its called progress. Don't be like the horse and buggy folks trying to ban automobiles at turn of century.

They produce about 10 times as much as they did when I was a kid, with about 20% of the workforce they had when I was a kid.

Would be interesting to hear a communist party boss rationalize this kind of wholesale robotification to the laid off workers.

Why did they switch to robots? Were the anti-suicide-nets getting too expensive?

lease to other countries. plenty of countries they want to invade, they could group-up with their 'ally' Russia who also has interest in invading 'neighbor' countries.

Russia doesn't seem to want to have their regular citizens be 'boots on the ground' , maybe they'll lease a couple million unemployed Chinese 'workers'?