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Foxconn has been planning to buy 1 million robots to replace human workers
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[quote:Anonymous Coward 27724042:MV8yMDUwNzg3XzM0NDYxODk5X0U1N0NDNTU3] Humm that what 1% think about 99% "[b]Humans are messy, they want more money[/b]" [/quote]
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Foxconn has been planning to buy 1 million robots to replace human workers and it looks like that change, albeit gradual, is about to start.
The company is allegedly paying $25,000 per robot – about three times a worker’s average salary – and they will replace humans in assembly tasks. The plans have been in place for a while – I spoke to Foxconn reps about this a year ago – and it makes perfect sense. Humans are messy, they want more money, and having a half-a-million of them in one factory is a recipe for unrest. But what happens after the halls are clear of careful young men and women and instead full of whirring robots? What happens to China’s “burgeoning” economy?
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