There were more than two million robots working in Chinese factories last year, according to a report released Thursday by the International Federation of Robotics, a nonprofit trade group for makers of industrial robots. Factories in China installed nearly 300,000 new robots last year, more than the rest of the world combined, the report found.
The robotic industrial revolution is already won. Congratulations to the winners of the new age of progress and human evolution. If anyone tells you about the wonders of making nothing and a service economy, shoot them dead and don’t look back. They are criminal traitors.
I’ve said it often before. I’m absolutely okay with robots taking my job, it’s exhausting and tedious anyway. I’m not okay with their owners taking my money. Tax the shit out of them or even take it from them and make it the robot of the people.
Just shoot the robots
Nah. The plow improved society when everyone said the same thing.
The time can be invested in expanding and creating new things. Inbred societies that lost their industrial capacity only have the option to extract and reduce with gains and improvements. The capable use what they have to create more and new things. Puritan fuckwits believe they are in some kind of final state of technology. They aren’t even out of the stone age yet. The next era of major technologies is entirely biological. It is the key to sustainability. The USA forfeited that future for dogmatism and corruption in the medical field. All of the sciences require 5 sigma results except for medical. It is 3 sigma garbage. Things called breakthroughs in medical are insignificant irrelevant noise in physics, chemistry, and astronomy. One day biology will be fully understood and an engineering corpus. That is the day when true interstellar travel becomes possible. If we get to a complete understanding of biology before the next major planetary cataclysm, we will own the galaxy in 100k years. Planets are gravity prison cradles only suitable for the most primitive lifeforms.
The reason we are so backwards in the west is extremely simple, we are not meritocratic. Wealth is inherited. All of our present leaders have inherited wealth. Business acumen and intelligence are not hereditary. There is no path that bridges from the masses to the top classes of society to lead by merit. The lack of potential growth and mobility has crushed the culture into dystopian decline. There is no mechanism to stop this inherited wealth cancer. It is terminal.
Lol
This is why I think the narrative that China’s economy is going to collapse due to losing workers over time because of their demographics is false. I think the engineers running China are going to turn to mass automation and AI to increase their workforce’s labour productivity and maintain the ability to make everything.
Whether the Chinese workers would be able to capture more of that higher productivity than their western counterparts is an open question. Given some numbers I’ve seen, so far they have done better in this regard. But I imagine the Chinese capitalist class would be fighting tooth and nail to change that.
Given some numbers I’ve seen, so far they have done better in this regard.
Which numbers are that?
Wages (in manufacturing) increasing at a rate somewhat proportional (pasted a pic below since longer periods require login) to the growth of the economy, which means that workers are capturing a significant chunk of the economic growth. This is also reflected in the falling Gini index after its peak in 2010.
Your picture proves nothing.
Gini is only one metric. Even if we assume the data is correct, it is not better than in Europe or Western democracies. But many experts don’t believe these numbers. Gini is based on official data provided by the Chinese government, hence not very reliable.
Social inequity in China is also higher by all comparitive standards. And Chinese workers’ rights, women’s rights, rights of minorities (essentially all other than Han- Chinese) are much weaker than in the West.
Yeah I’m not going into the fake numbers debate. You choose to believe the numbers you believe. I made a specific point since the topic was factory automation which typiclly has effects on wages, productivity and employment. To me the trend in wages is the most interesting. Especially given the context of automation so far. If you believe the numbers, wages are rising rapidly. If the trend continues they will close the gap with us. Adjusted for PPP they’re almost at Greece’s average wage level. If you believe the numbers.
Robot unemployment rates are very high in most other countries.
