4 ms·

I am amazed when I see video footage of a keyboard being put together by hand, each keyboard being a 102 piece jigsaw puzzle done with cottage industry workflow

I am amazed when I see video footage of a keyboard being put together by hand, each keyboard being a 102 piece jigsaw puzzle done with cottage industry workflow and technology levels. I had assumed that all of this had been automated and that robots would be doing it all. It really is a question of people being cheaper than robots. Personally I would prefer people to be able to have the robots do the work and more people share that wealth in some socialist republic where there are huge sport centers, universities and creche facilities. The thing is that having factories full of people can be considered 'wage slavery', robots are okay with being slaves and they don't need wages.

notatoad 9y ago
it's not that the robots are okay with being slaves, it's that as soon as you automate a job is stops being a crappy wage-slave job and starts being a "good manufacturing job" and politicians start looking for ways to give them back to humans.
randomdata 9y ago
> robots are okay with being slaves and they don't need wages. Quite the opposite. Humans are willing to work without a wage, proven time and time again with unpaid internships and the like. If you cut off payment to a robot (currencies differ for different robots, but electricity is a common preference), they always go on strike immediately. Cut off their company-provided shelter for any meaningful length of time and they will probably never work for you again. Humans are far more forgiving.