7 YRS PROCESS - DAY 1533 - ROBOTS AND UNEMPLOYMENT - PART 2

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Robots and unemployment

I am catching up with posting online my articles.


Here I also would like to bring one important point. There are more and more corporations investing money into implementation of robots in the manufacturing process. And what that means is that many people are losing and many more will lose their jobs as a result of it. For example the Foxconn factory has reduced its employee strength from 110,000 to 50,000, thanks to the introduction of robots. The management justifies this decision as a cost reduction and that is understandable but within this nobody gives a fuck about all these people who lose their job. Some of these people will find a job in another factory or they will change their job completely but many will certainly struggle and they will end up on the street fighting for survival.

You'll know... all these robots could make our life easier. Because thanks to them we could have more time to spend with our families and friends and dedicate more time towards our hobbies and other things which we really enjoy. But because our current system is based on the greed and the desire to make as much profit as possible without giving a fuck about human beings so this is not going to happen so easy. We could probably look again at the Star Wars film in which we can see that despite having all these advanced machines, robots and star ships there are still many people who have to do shit jobs to get some money for the survival. And thus I won't be surprised if we ( humanity ) end up exactly in this situation. We could easily change it if we changed our principle of living from "what is best for me" into "what is best for all". But will we do it ?





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