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So in essence you're saying that if trade were blocked off with China tonorrow, Apple would invent all the robots it needed to replace the 1 million or so peopl

• mercurysmessage 9y ago
  Where, did I, in essence, say that? Those jobs are being replaced and at an increasing rate. Not all of them tomorrow, but probably a lot faster than what you are trying to argue with your strawman.
  • crdoconnor 9y ago
    They're growing though. Foxconn used to employ about 300,000 fewer 5 or so years ago. Foxconn also promised they'd mostly all be automated away within 5 years or so, 5 years ago. That wasn't bad capacity planning on their part. That was just a flat out lie. That lie was repeated, uncritically by the western media at the time. 5 years later they're still repeating the prediction and the western media still reports it with not a shadow of skepticism.