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Regretably, unless some sort of worldwide ethical commerce treaty is established in the near future, a "foxconnified" workforce will be a basic requirement in o
by sespindola 13y ago
Regretably, unless some sort of worldwide ethical commerce treaty is established in the near future, a "foxconnified" workforce will be a basic requirement in order to mass produce anything, anwywhere in the world.
- krasin 13y agoI still have a hope for robots. They are behind the sci-fi schedule, but still cheaper&easier to program every year.
- logicallee 13y agoI love the sense of entitlement here. "We should have lifechanging robots by now, but even though they're late I still have hope."
- GFischer 13y agoI didn't see any entitlement in the grandparent post, only an expression of hope :) We ARE seeing lifechanging robots (example: Google self driving cars, there are less visible ones, but even my hospital here in Uruguay has one for surgeries). In my visit to BMW's factories, I was amazed by their robots. They just haven't reached the masses yet, there isn't a Microsoft of robots ("one robot in every house"). Note: Microsoft's original vision "a computer on every desk and in every home, running Microsoft software"
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- unoti 13y agoI have no doubt that this near-slavery condition will always exist, but that doesn't make it right. Confederates before the US Civil War argued in favor of slavery, and some of the arguments weren't far off from that thinking. http://www.ushistory.org/us/27f.asp http://www.ushistory.org/us/27f.asp
- ms4720 13y agonot Confederates it was the Democrats that argued it
- craigyk 13y agoif I remember correctly, the Republicans and Democrats swapped places in every way but name not too long after that.
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- kyllo 13y agoYeah, after the Reconstruction there was a mass defection of Southern Democrats or "Dixiecrats" (aka unabashedly racist politicians, many of whom were Klan members) from the Democratic to the Republican party.
- mnutt 13y agoThe Southern Democrats moved over to the Republican party long after the Reconstruction, starting in the 1960s.
- eru 13y agoGermany does just fine producing stuff.