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Report: Apple Demands Suppliers Switch to Robotics for Manufacturing
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Yep get rid of the human cost so we didn't have to worry about salaries. Margins over all. Sounds very TIM APPLE.
What is this company's goal now anyway?
What is this company's goal now anyway?
Even on your one day off, the sheep and pigs would need to eat, the horses need to be let out in the morning and the cows would need milking. And if something didn't get done earlier in the week, your one day off would be used to get caught up on that task.
Like fixing a fence, building a new ramp for the cows, or cleaning out the various water troughs so the animals wouldn't have all kinds of filth floating in their drinking water. You might have to spend some of your Sunday hunting the wild pigs that got into the chicken coops and killed some of your best-laying hens. And then there's the utility shed that leaks water inside during the rain. You'd love to repair at least the biggest leak so that you'd have room to park your small tractor closer to the door because that's the one thing you use the most.
I'm not a farmer and I don't have livestock, but I'm pretty sure all the animals poop every day, so if you have stalls, you'll still need to clean them out, even on your "day off".
When you have livestock, there's probably no such thing as going to Turks and Caicos for a couple weeks to get away from it all.
You're not wrong. A lot of them used to complain about everything, because they were actually being paid to do that.
But the good news is that SOME are realizing that the gravy train has stopped delivering free money. When the bags of money stop showing up, people have to find other things to do for their survival. Many already have, with many more yet to come. And that is a GOOD thing.
But:
A.I. 2.0 will make it possible to pay them, in Botcoin, and install burning desire algorithms to spend it. I can already see long lines of robots forming at Dutch Brothers … until the day, when their A.I. was hacked and they began to unionize, eventually go on strike …
…That’s how the highest paying jobs in several industries have operated for decades.
Sports, tech, hollywood, etc
This was always inevitable and much needed improvement of obsoleting jobs many in developed countries don’t want replaced with jobs many can and are able to do n such countries at a high paying / sustainable rate via robotics.
Being a factory worker is not up there at all among the desired jobs in the US; the jobs desired and compensated appropriately after formal education in computer science and business resource optimization studies in college has ALWAYS been robotic replacement of such jobs that also levels the playing field where goods can be manufactured benefiting all companies with global impact implications
I have to disagree with that one. I don’t believe a majority of people will want to wear glasses, even assuming everything is perfect (usability, battery life, etc.).
A phone is much more versatile because you don’t need to wear it, only carry it.
Not the way Apple (or big companies) have transformed manufacturing.
Manufacturing jobs should not be "modern slavery".
We've been told that if you offer better wages then products would be more expensive.
Yes, but people in general will also have better living conditions.
Modern slavery for the sake of profits for a few is not, in my view, very ethical.
And soon, they might as well be designed by robots.
And hence Elons Musk talking about a "universal salary". What a depressing world we are building.
Agreed. Capitalism on itself does not protect workers. Business owners will always want to cut costs and maximize profits. But modern capitalism sucks even more. Wealth is super concentrated on very few people that have a lot of influence on what happens.
Society won't progress until Capitalism and Religion are things from our past.
No one said the majority; majority won’t be able to afford it being a luxury for a while—just like computers and cell phones were for a while but more pronounced as expected.
Settling for a slab phone was never the endgame for most people to ideally have; AR and more functional portable computers was always more superior but not yet technically viable until now similar to real time ray-tracing over rasterization.
The average person thinks if most of them don’t buy, they can control the progress of such advances; it’s not that simple at all.
Like high paying tech jobs and above (hundreds of thousands per year in major tech cities) already enable, such things will be further latent perks of being able to afford them being competitively competent at those jobs rather than pursuing other career fields.
Such jobs are among the few jobs people have any hope of comfortably and regularly affording high-end goods for people of all genders and backgrounds
On that we agree. No one running a business decided to move production abroad as a way to make *less* money.
That’s nonsense and more than likely won’t happen during your lifetime, so why bother with such idealistic and unrealistic views
It is and it's happening fast especially with robotics and AI so enjoy it while it lasts because by 2030 the world will be unrecognizable.
Depends. Which one will allow me to own a home and raise two kids? And if your answer is neither, then REALLY THINK about what you're saying.
Forced obsolescence: iPhone can only function for 7 years sharp. Exactly on 7th anniversary Apple will activate a kill switch to destroy iOS on it, rendering it completely useless. And there will be an instruction telling customers where to trade in their now 7 year old iPhone for a new one. One year prior to destruction iOS will send warning messages weekly urging customers to take their iPhone back to Apple for trade in and recycle.
Robots will work in America. The problem is finding enough qualified people to build them efficiently and in high quality. Also maintaining those robots.
Soon only 0.02% of population will have money and luxury and all the rest will have none.
Yes but we don’t need that many people. And the people we need must be highly qualified and skilled.
The population reset may happen concurrently with automation, so the world has a sustainable level of population.
That's how the ruling class plan to re-enslave us. Soft shackles in the form of subscriptions and services. You will own nothing.
That's management's job since they work for the shareholders, in theory at least.
The corollary of this article is that build quality is not consistently good enough outside China ie. not all people and cultures are equal. Marx be damned