You think these workers in China who just got replaced by machines made $15/hr? Or anywhere near that?Just watch....as people keep demanding $15/hr for the most basic jobs, they're going to be replaced by robots and then completely out of a job.
Yeah wages in China have been rising but they're still generally quite a bit below what they are in the US. Average is only around $5K a year.
The reality is the cost of automation keeps going down yearly. And if places like China have wages that are too high to compete against automation now then pretty much all low skill/repetitive task workers are screwed virtually no matter their wage.