> Basically in China human manufacturing rules over all. Many westerners have misconceptions about automation in factories. Many westerners are unhappy because

> Basically in China human manufacturing rules over all. Many westerners have misconceptions about automation in factories. Many westerners are unhappy because globalization has caused a loss of manufacturing jobs. People elsewhere in the thread say that the Chinese government encourages using a lot of human labor in order to foster social order. Maybe so, or maybe they don't need to, because labor is so cheap anyway. Certainly the Japanese government does it, since labor is not cheap there. But Western governments are more efficient. They don't have to make sure people have jobs: they can just tell people that those jobs went away because of automation, not globalization. People won't complain too much, they know they can't fight technology. And that's where the misconception comes from. Basically in the West labor arbitrage rules over all.