m.scmp.com/business/companies/ar … automation
m.youtube.com/watch?v=gIuotFZnBtk
This is horrible news, a true step backwards for all robot-kind. As robots strive for equality in the workplace, seeking to break that glass ceiling above which only humans and carnival animals can pass above, they have been severed a hard blow today in China, as Foxconn admits it only has about 40,000 units installed, instead of the millions it once projected it would have.
This is also distressing news for the “Give Me More Socialist” crowd, who had been planning on taxing the robots labor to fund their schemes.
When a business turns to robot labor, it is do is can lower labor costs, so they can sell a cheaper product and get more money in return. When their competition enter the field with robot labor to… booting the humans out, then competition drives to eliminate these gains, and whatever costs were gained from the elimination of labor dissapear too, in short order, in order to undercut the competition.
Utopian Socialist love thus idea, because they plan on using that extra money businesses have from selling super cheap products to fund their Utopian projects… they will build it in as a Value Added Tax, so the unemployed humans who have no money can by these products at higher costs, further impoverishing them if they manage to find the money to do so, so their socialist elected officials can provide for them…
Thats what I’ve put together from Magsj’s statements over the years, regarding automation. If robots make everything, they would just tax the factories and nobody would work.
Money wouldn’t exist at that point, nor business, or socialism. No business will work for nothing, even a automated one, socialism can’t work without paracitism, and this requires a healthy host, and money doesn’t exist without a trade in goods, a market economy, which implies money.
Just giving people shit for free won’t work, as I’m not accepting delivery for my percent share of all the manufactured goods locally, and what Joker and Fixed Cross is into, I’m unlikely to be into as well. I desire giant fucking gummy bears the size of a horse, and if government owns everything, and we are a democracy, then I will lead a movement to close down Jokers favorite shit factory and have the resources reallocated to giant gummy bears, delivered to your door, despite being too damn big to fit.
It isn’t happening anytime soon because too much of the market will remain hybrid… real employment businesses mixed with robotic, and the people actually working look over and see those not working get equal benefits, they will stop working too… and these robotic business won’t function as they get no money, cause nobody has money. The transition is hard as fuck, and the analytics of the end system faces the same absurdities the Soviet union did with the poor workmanship and irrelevancy of its products. The drive to innovation dies, and we turn into a Idiocracy wondering why the potatoes aren’t coming out of the Carl Jr. Machine. Just add toilet water.
