alt Hacker NewsIn China, products are still made by people, because Chinese policy stipulates that robots must not take jobs away from people. If the U.S. were to switch its production to robots and thereby cause mass unemployment, a revolution would break out in the U.S.
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fwipsy • today at 5:23 AM
We can't switch our production to robots, we already switched it to China.
> If the U.S. were to switch its production to robots and thereby cause mass unemployment, a revolution would break out in the U.S.
You're assuming the US starts using robots to produce the things currently produced manually in the US, rather than using robots to produce the things currently produced manually in China.