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That’s a part of it, but generally increasing automation and productivity through advanced industrialization is China’s strategy for the long term. The more they can get out of each hour of human labor, the better a position China will be in to direct that productivity into solving social issues. This is the “correct” choice, but isn’t always the most profitable, so many Capitalist countries are lagging behind on that front.
Well in capitalist countries there’s also the problem of distribution of the value created by automation that displaces workers. So workers have the incentive to not automate since they’re often left out of the value the automation produces.
Sort of. Automation temporarily eliminates jobs, but just like steam engines and other tools employed by workers, only transfer value, they don’t create new value outright. For the purposes of profits, automation merely offers a temporary upper hand until the market equalizes, unless a point of absolute monopoly has been reached, at which point it is unquestionably more in the favor of workers to rebel.
Workers will resist machinery taking their jobs regardless, as it is a threat, but this process is inevitable and must be fought the same way it always has, by organizing so it can be made to benefit all.
I would be glad if every country could pursue automation on pretty much one of the most dangerous jobs to date.
A mistake or accident while working in electricity means there a noticeable chance of a wild arc appearing right in front ready to obliterate you (or at least cook you). I’m fine with a robot taking those risks.
But yeah, let’s just assume right away this is because China hates its people, so let’s replace everyone with expensive robots. /s
Is it an official Chinese policy to pursue automation as a means of dealing with population decline or is it just the obvious solution?
That’s a part of it, but generally increasing automation and productivity through advanced industrialization is China’s strategy for the long term. The more they can get out of each hour of human labor, the better a position China will be in to direct that productivity into solving social issues. This is the “correct” choice, but isn’t always the most profitable, so many Capitalist countries are lagging behind on that front.
Well in capitalist countries there’s also the problem of distribution of the value created by automation that displaces workers. So workers have the incentive to not automate since they’re often left out of the value the automation produces.
Sort of. Automation temporarily eliminates jobs, but just like steam engines and other tools employed by workers, only transfer value, they don’t create new value outright. For the purposes of profits, automation merely offers a temporary upper hand until the market equalizes, unless a point of absolute monopoly has been reached, at which point it is unquestionably more in the favor of workers to rebel.
Workers will resist machinery taking their jobs regardless, as it is a threat, but this process is inevitable and must be fought the same way it always has, by organizing so it can be made to benefit all.
I would be glad if every country could pursue automation on pretty much one of the most dangerous jobs to date.
A mistake or accident while working in electricity means there a noticeable chance of a wild arc appearing right in front ready to obliterate you (or at least cook you). I’m fine with a robot taking those risks.
But yeah, let’s just assume right away this is because China hates its people, so let’s replace everyone with expensive robots. /s
I didn’t assume that. While that’s one interpretation of my comment, there are others.
This is a pretty convoluted way to achieve automation in a substation panel …