I'm not really sure if there's much we can do from the consumer standpoint. Even if we managed to organize a boycott of these types of products, then what? the workers that made these lose their jobs and starve?
I think we may be forced to wait until China and the other sweatshop types of countries become fully industrialized. Sweatshop workers may be able to assemble 15 iPods a day, but when a robot is developed that can assemble 200 with only a fraction of the operating costs, I think those workers will be able to come into a higher standard of living. This exact type of thing happened/is happening in the US.
The robot would cost millions to build and need expensive robotics engineers to maintain, why not just abduct some chinese kids and chain em to a production line? By the way 10,000 kids get abducted in China every year, were do you think they go?
Sure the capital up front is expensive, but the overall cost of operating a factory exclusively run by machines is actually considerably cheaper than even running the factory on slave labor. The price of food is still more expensive than the price of the electricity and minor maintenance done by a technician. The quality of products coming from a factory using machines rather than manual labor is also considerably higher.
Do you think the whole system is broken?
← View full post
I'm not really sure if there's much we can do from the consumer standpoint. Even if we managed to organize a boycott of these types of products, then what? the workers that made these lose their jobs and starve?
I think we may be forced to wait until China and the other sweatshop types of countries become fully industrialized. Sweatshop workers may be able to assemble 15 iPods a day, but when a robot is developed that can assemble 200 with only a fraction of the operating costs, I think those workers will be able to come into a higher standard of living. This exact type of thing happened/is happening in the US.
--
handsignals
10 years ago
|
pl
Comment Hidden (
show
)
Report
0
0
The robot would cost millions to build and need expensive robotics engineers to maintain, why not just abduct some chinese kids and chain em to a production line? By the way 10,000 kids get abducted in China every year, were do you think they go?
--
q25t
10 years ago
|
pl
Comment Hidden (
show
)
Report
0
0
Sure the capital up front is expensive, but the overall cost of operating a factory exclusively run by machines is actually considerably cheaper than even running the factory on slave labor. The price of food is still more expensive than the price of the electricity and minor maintenance done by a technician. The quality of products coming from a factory using machines rather than manual labor is also considerably higher.
--
handsignals
10 years ago
|
pl
Comment Hidden (
show
)
Report
0
0
Dude you are way off, kids don't eat much, machines need fuel, lubricants, electricity, technicians, they also take up more space.