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Giant_Aspirin posted...

Questionmarktarius posted...

Giant_Aspirin posted...

but we all know the ultimate end-goal of factories is to fully automate.

No, the ultimate end goal is to not have to load up a giant boat with Chinese crap and steam it all the way across the pacific.
Automation is just incidental to the process.

im not sure the point you're making here. perhaps 'end goal' wasn't the right word choice? but my point is that it's obvious that factories like Foxconn aren't interested in employing people once robots are economically more viable.

if we're going to get technical about it, the ultimate end goal of any company is to make as much profit as possible and both automation and reduced transportation distance contribute to that.

Were the goal robots, it wouldn't matter much if the robots were in Madison or Shenzhen.
If anything, the fact the Wisconsin is a right-to-work state is a very good indicator that Foxconn really does want people working in some capacity, right next to the robots (or at least on the other side of a light curtain).