{"id":10956,"date":"2011-07-31T18:11:00","date_gmt":"2011-07-31T16:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/davidbosman.fr\/blog\/2011\/07\/31\/we-robots\/"},"modified":"2011-07-31T18:13:14","modified_gmt":"2011-07-31T16:13:14","slug":"we-robots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidbosman.fr\/blog\/2011\/07\/31\/we-robots\/","title":{"rendered":"We, Robots"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n  <p>Taiwanese technology giant Foxconn will replace some of its workers with 1 million robots in three years to cut rising labor expenses and improve efficiency, said Terry Gou, founder and chairman of the company, late Friday.<br>(&#8230;)<br>\n  The company currently employs 1.2 million people, with about 1 million of them based on the Chinese mainland.\n  <br><br>\n  <a href=\"http:\/\/news.xinhuanet.com\/english2010\/china\/2011-07\/30\/c_131018764.htm\">Foxconn to replace workers with 1 million robots in 3 years<\/a>, via <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/greatdismal\/status\/97687313945075712\">@timoreilly<\/a> and  <a href=\"http:\/\/slashdot.org\/story\/11\/07\/30\/2355258\/Foxconn-To-Employ-1-Million-Robots\">slashdot<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>&#8212; But then, if nobody earns its life,  who will purchase the stuff being made by the robots?<br \/>\n&#8212; First, it is not as if chinese workers, even when they were working and earned wages I mean, were ever able to purchase iToys or high end electronics, so why worry? Second, if it ever becomes a problem&#8211;if this labour outsourcing to robots ever happens to occidental workers, the very same people who are our consumers&#8211;there is an obvious and easy solution : replace the consumers with other robots. And there is a bonus: robots don&#8217;t vote.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taiwanese technology giant Foxconn will replace some of its workers with 1 million robots in three years to cut rising labor expenses and improve efficiency, said Terry Gou, founder and chairman of the company, late Friday.(&#8230;) The company currently employs &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.davidbosman.fr\/blog\/2011\/07\/31\/we-robots\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[23,4],"class_list":["post-10956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chose-a-dit","tag-sf","tag-societe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidbosman.fr\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10956","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidbosman.fr\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidbosman.fr\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidbosman.fr\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidbosman.fr\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10956"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidbosman.fr\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10956\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10957,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidbosman.fr\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10956\/revisions\/10957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidbosman.fr\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidbosman.fr\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidbosman.fr\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}