[sparkscoffee] Re: Why manufacturing jobs are never coming back
- From: Kelly A <kellyutah@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <sparkscoffee@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2013 17:07:49 +0000
Ron,
When a successful manufacturing company has already maximized efficiencies in
other areas, they look at lowering labor costs. Robots are the next natural
evolution for some companies to lower costs and maximize profits. The paradox
is that as real workers are displaced by robots, the consumer base is
diminished for the products coming off the manufacturing lines. Maybe this is
nature's way of population control. The scenario may be the making of a movie
plot: 100 years in the future when robots have replaced all but the very few
people required to maintain them. As the robot technology advances to the
point that they can self-repair and replicate, even their human maintainers
become obsolete and risk losing their livelihoods the same as countless
millions have through the prior decades.... not because the robots force them
out directly, but because their immediate human bosses consolidate even more
wealth by replacing them with robots as well.
What's more, as the rise of the robots is a natural evolution of all highly
developed carbon based life forms through the universe, there are likely drones
cruising the universe from countess places for countless reasons. Earth's
first contact with other intelligent life not from this planet may well happen
without the knowledge of the life forms that created it. It will likely be no
more than a utility drone created by a robot which was created by another robot
for some mundane insignificant reason long ago in a galaxy far away! ;)
Maybe if JS finds a producer for his Nam/Laos story, he can ask them if they'll
take this one too!
Kelly A.
Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2013 08:04:26 -0600
From: ristad@xxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [sparkscoffee] Why manufacturing jobs are never coming back
To:
The rise of the robots.
"...With each month, the US economy becomes steadily more automated. In January
the US economy added just 4,000 manufacturing jobs, and the net increase since
July is zero.
"Yet last month, manufacturing activity rose by its fastest rate since April,
according to the Institute for Supply Management.
The difference boils down to robots, which pose an increasingly nagging
paradox: the more there are, the better for overall growth (since they
boost productivity); yet the worse things become for the middle class.
US median income has fallen in each of the last five years..."
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/f6f19228-6bbc-11e2-a17d-00144feab49a.html#axzz2JvaQR9vh
Robots in Chinese factories.
http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2012-11-29/the-march-of-robots-into-chinese-factories
-RR
"Any man who thinks he can be happy and prosperous by letting the government
take care of him, better take a closer look at the American Indian." - Henry
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