• @jqubed
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    56 months ago

    There are higher upfront costs with a robot, though, so if the volume is low human labor can make more sense.

    • downpunxx
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      106 months ago

      human labor always makes more financial sense when you’re not paying the human labor a living wage, which is why, for the last 30 years, everything the western world consumes is produced in china. it’s the human slavery. it’s in the machine.

      • @SkyezOpen
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        56 months ago

        I’ll have you know they do have machines in China. From my research (on liveleak) I also know that they tend not to have safety rails.

      • @FireRetardant
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        36 months ago

        America was founded on slavery and that established a certain quaility and way of life. When slavery was abolished many people wanted to keep the lifestyle that was built on the backs of slaves but without relying on slaves (cheap sugar and foriegn produce for example). Eventually corporations figured out that most people won’t care so long as the slavery is out of sight, out of mind, by being done in another country.

      • Melkath
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        06 months ago

        You can pay one person 5k for 40 years, or you can use a machine that cost 200k upfront that breaks down in 10 years.

        Which one are the capitalists going to choose?