Foxconn Wants To Replace Nearly Every Human With Robots

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It isn’t any kind of surprise, as this is basically every production factory’s dream. What is interesting is that the company is already close to the goal, with many of its factories having fully automated processes with minimal human workers. A Foxconn manager notes that humans can still be pretty useful because they have the flexibility to quickly switch from one task to another, however.

Foxconn Electronics is automating production at its factories in China in three phases, aiming to fully automate entire factories eventually, according to general manager Dai Jia-peng for Foxconn's Automation Technology Development Committee. In the first phase, Foxconn aims to set up individual automated work stations for work that workers are unwilling to do or is dangerous, Dai said. Entire production lines will be automated to decrease the number of robots used during the second phase, Dai noted. In the third phase, entire factories will be automated with only a minimal number of workers assigned for production, logistics, testing and inspection processes, Dai indicated.
 
DukenukemX said:
Can't wait for Trump to bring those factory jobs in USA, cause we have a lot of unemployed robots.
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Then people with complain about why everything costs an extra 40%. Labor is expensive.

Long term, all manufacturing will be automated. Trying to save those jobs is pointless; the economics for business is clear.
 
DukenukemX said:
Can't wait for Trump to bring those factory jobs in USA, cause we have a lot of unemployed robots.
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Still a hell of a lot better to have all that money right here in the US economy, paying US taxes, and providing a ton of US support jobs from all the related industries that go into supplying and maintaining these facilities. What's nice too is that these jobs won't be minimum wage jobs, but engineering and tech support positions that pay quite well.
 
Ducman69 said:
Still a hell of a lot better to have all that money right here in the US economy, paying US taxes, and providing a ton of US support jobs from all the related industries that go into supplying and maintaining these facilities. What's nice too is that these jobs won't be minimum wage jobs, but engineering and tech support positions that pay quite well.
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They pay taxes here.....hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahhahahahahha, Oh you were serious. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAAHAHAHAHA.
 
What a wonderful global company.

Everything we have is supplied to us from sweat-shops.

We just choose to ignore it.
 
Vercinaigh said:
They pay taxes here.....hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahhahahahahha, Oh you were serious. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAAHAHAHAHA.
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Yeah, they do.

As an example, people were complaining that in the negotiations with Carrier, that their parent company was offered a $7.5 million tax break over the next three years ($2.5 million a year) to keep operations in the US. Carrier is owned by United Technologies Corporation paid an adjusted effective tax rate of 32.6%: https://www.stock-analysis-on.net/NYSE/Company/United-Technologies-Corp/Analysis/Income-Taxes

They reported $2.8 billion in profits, and if we say that the numbers aren't right and they actually only paid say half of the 32.6% the stock analysis says they did at 15%, that means they paid at a bare minimum $420,000,000 in taxes, which is $420,000,000 more taxes than the US would receive if they packed up everything and moved to Mexico. To put that number into perspective, that means that going to Taco Bell, you could buy about 420,000,000 items from the dollar menu, and feed the entire United States.
 
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As Steve has mentioned on more than one occasion, robots are either going to kill us all or make us all unemployed.. or do both!! Any way you look at it, we lose!!

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Insula Gilliganis said:
As Steve has mentioned on more than one occasion, robots are either going to kill us all or make us all unemployed.. or do both!! Any way you look at it, we lose!!
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We're not there yet, but at some point we do have to ask ourselves how we can fairly divide up the fruits of robotic labor.

If we go by the "whoever owns the robots gets it all", then ultimately three or four people on a planet of billions would basically own everything, and not much most could do about it once warfare becomes automated as well with self-piloting drones.

But you also need to keep people motivated to do more than sit on their ass and be lazy, or you end up with the other extreme of a Wall-E world, where advancement of civilization grinds to a halt with a bunch of fat lazy dumb people scooting about.
 
Humans shouldn't do repetitive assembly jobs anyway. Wont be long before 6 hour work days becomes a standard. I wouldn't be surprised if it was only 4 hours in 2050.
 
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Insula Gilliganis said:
As Steve has mentioned on more than one occasion, robots are either going to kill us all or make us all unemployed.. or do both!! Any way you look at it, we lose!!
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I don't want a job, I want a living. And robots working in our stead is a great way to achieve that.
 
Ducman69 said:
We're not there yet, but at some point we do have to ask ourselves how we can fairly divide up the fruits of robotic labor.

If we go by the "whoever owns the robots gets it all", then ultimately three or four people on a planet of billions would basically own everything, and not much most could do about it once warfare becomes automated as well with self-piloting drones.

But you also need to keep people motivated to do more than sit on their ass and be lazy, or you end up with the other extreme of a Wall-E world, where advancement of civilization grinds to a halt with a bunch of fat lazy dumb people scooting about.
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We're already getting there without robots. If you have a system where there are less total jobs than the number of people that need them, then the cracks start to show. As for the Wall-E world, there's bound to be some of that, but I think plenty of people overall would still be motivated to either work or accomplish other things. So if you were unemployed, but still received projects-level housing and government issued bulk food, that's not such a huge deterrent towards wanting to work to get something better.

Shintai said:
Humans shouldn't do repetitive assembly jobs anyway. Wont be long before 6 hour work days becomes a standard. I wouldn't be surprised if it was only 4 hours in 2050.
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Nah, with the way we're going, people with jobs will still be working just as hard in 2050, we'll just have massive unemployment for everyone else.
 
Ducman69 said:
Yeah, they do.

As an example, people were complaining that in the negotiations with Carrier, that their parent company was offered a $7.5 million tax break over the next three years ($2.5 million a year) to keep operations in the US. Carrier is owned by United Technologies Corporation paid an adjusted effective tax rate of 32.6%: https://www.stock-analysis-on.net/NYSE/Company/United-Technologies-Corp/Analysis/Income-Taxes

They reported $2.8 billion in profits, and if we say that the numbers aren't right and they actually only paid say half of the 32.6% the stock analysis says they did at 15%, that means they paid at a bare minimum $420,000,000 in taxes, which is $420,000,000 more taxes than the US would receive if they packed up everything and moved to Mexico. To put that number into perspective, that means that going to Taco Bell, you could buy about 420,000,000 items from the dollar menu, and feed the entire United States.
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I weep for Carrier and all those millions in taxes.. 'cause the US does nothing for them I suppose :meh:
 
Ducman69 said:
Yeah, they do.

As an example, people were complaining that in the negotiations with Carrier, that their parent company was offered a $7.5 million tax break over the next three years ($2.5 million a year) to keep operations in the US. Carrier is owned by United Technologies Corporation
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It's worth noting that Trump may have had some leverage if he did indeed work a "deal" with Carrier. I'm sure the underhanded threat of being "out bidded" on a regular basis could convince them to take some losses in that little HVAC wing of the companies portfolio. You know....as a show of good will and stuff.

United Technologies Corporation (UTC) is an American multinational conglomerate headquartered in Farmington, Connecticut. It researches, develops, and manufactures high-technology products in numerous areas, including aircraft engines, aerospace systems, HVAC, elevators and escalators, fire and security, building systems, and industrial products, among others. UTC is also a large military contractor, producing missile and aircraft systems.
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Shintai said:
Humans shouldn't do repetitive assembly jobs anyway. Wont be long before 6 hour work days becomes a standard. I wouldn't be surprised if it was only 4 hours in 2050.
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I bet you can build Star Trek replicators for everybody on this planet and there will still be stupid people complaining about how the good old days when working on a job that they don't like is better.
 
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