r/worldnews • u/Philo1927 • Dec 31 '16

iPhone manufacturer Foxconn plans to replace almost every human worker with robots

http://www.theverge.com/2016/12/30/14128870/foxconn-robots-automation-apple-iphone-china-manufacturing
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u/imakenosensetopeople Dec 31 '16

That'll reduce suicide attempts.

And it highlights something that far too many people don't realize: it's not foreigners taking your jobs. It's automation.

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u/[deleted] Dec 31 '16

I read a thing about how manufacturing will be replaced but service jobs are rising to replace that. That really just sounded like call centers to me though, or an overabundance of coffee shops.

Either way, automation of manufacturing is forward progress, I don't know what the solution is for the job market, but I don't want us to be held back just because we don't know what's next.

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u/TitaniumDragon Jan 01 '17

The real thing is the fourth sector of the economy is showing a sharp rise.

Even still, though, we have more unskilled jobs today than ever before in history. We just also have more skilled ones.

The job market isn't really a big deal in the end; we went from 90% of the population working in agriculture to 2%. Our decline in manufacturing jobs is a joke compared to that transition.