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CK_John

(10,005 posts)
Sun Jan 26, 2014, 01:33 PM Jan 2014

Is Cyber-era productivity(less jobs) starting to effect China bigtime???

IMO, Their economic model is to bring millions of rural sweat labor into manufacturing centers in order to create an urban upscale middle class.

Works ok until cyber-era automation starts using less and less people labor..

Then what??? Chaos and implosion.

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arendt

(5,078 posts)
1. I read that the Chinese de-technologize the workplace...
Sun Jan 26, 2014, 01:40 PM
Jan 2014

that is, jobs that would be done by old-fashioned automation or new robotics are done BY HAND in Chinese factories, because the labor costs are so low.

Perhaps the next generation of robotics will be fast enough and smart enough to displace Chinese slave labor, but for now, this is not the wall I see China hitting.

Pollution? Yes they have to worry about that right now.

Lack of demand for their crap products? If the idiots screaming "austerity" are allowed to continue strangling our economy, then China won't have any customers. And, since they are as neoliberal as the West, they aren't about to pay to create a real middle class. Instead they will have the Victorian middle class we are heading towards: lawyers, stockbrokers, and professional servants to the rich.

CK_John

(10,005 posts)
4. I agree that China is beginning to face the problem of less jobs due to productivity. But...
Sun Jan 26, 2014, 01:49 PM
Jan 2014

I'm not sure of their solutions because it is very difficult getting accurate info.

onehandle

(51,122 posts)
3. China is poised to become the #1 Superpower by mid-century.
Sun Jan 26, 2014, 01:42 PM
Jan 2014

If that is threatened by too many people vs. resources, I predict that one of the multiple nationalities within the artificial country known as 'China' will be exterminated.

My bet is that the people of Tibet will be processed in a 'final solution' first.

 

El_Johns

(1,805 posts)
6. What's different than here?
Sun Jan 26, 2014, 03:16 PM
Jan 2014

That's the pattern of industrialization; bring the peasants to the cities to work in the factories, then upgrade equipment and lay them off.

CK_John

(10,005 posts)
7. They seem to be aware of the cyber-era productivity problem While here the only on air
Sun Jan 26, 2014, 03:46 PM
Jan 2014

mention of this problem was by Martin Bashir on CNN .

 

El_Johns

(1,805 posts)
8. Marx was writing about technological innovation throwing people out of work in the 1850s.
Sun Jan 26, 2014, 03:54 PM
Jan 2014

It's not some big secret.

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