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Nope - just last week the president of South Africa was talking at a conference in Johannesburg dedicated to "Industry 4.0". A massive existing concern is job-

• wrong_variable 7y ago
  You need to be more specific about "automation". My kids still need a lot of manual human labor to be educated ( services ). You still need a lot of manual labor to create roads, bridges and apartments. People were talking about flying cars 50 years ago, all those flying car investors must be billionares ? On the ground things haven't progressed much, regardless of how much you would like to believe it. Cape Town literally ran out of water ! If you mean automation for producing cheap plastic toys for Westerns ? If I was African why should I care about being exploited for white skinned consumers ? China pulled a fast one, with selling cheap plastic goods to move up the value chain, steal technology and create Huawei. African countries should do the same. If the US/EU imposes tariffs due to to currency devaluation. Africans should band together and only sell their natural resources in a new currency. Lets see how long the EU/US lasts when the most resource rich continent pulls a King Faisal.
  • pinkfoot 7y ago
    >You need to be more specific about "automation". All of it, no exceptions. Happy?