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

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.