Here is why you can afford to buy a PC

[MineralMan]

Watch this, and count the people you see in this video of manufacturing a PC motherboard. This is why people are needed less and less in manufacturing:

[LiberalArkie]

1. I love my GigaByte MB's

[Afromania]

5. you and me both

like the old Timex slogan, "takes a licking and keeps on ticking".

[canetoad]

9. Yep

Have a UD (ultra durable) that has run almost continuously since 2010.

[okieinpain]

10. i want to try that new ryzan chip for my birthday

can't wait to get a new board. i will have to do battle with the wife but it will be a battle well worth it.

[ExciteBike66]

2. I can only imagine some dude trying to manufacture my

motherboard, he would need tiny little fingers and the eyes of an eagle to solder all the crap on that thing.

Actually, if Trump's vision is good I bet he would do fine with those delicate little hands!

[Revanchist]

4. Hopefully this won't earn me a hide

[monmouth4]

3. Very interesting. I couldn't look away..n/t

[Sailor65x1]

6. Not even the cost really...

We are long past the point where humans could even build a functioning unit with current specs at all. So this is actually the reason you can own a PC.

[Jeroen]

7. BMW F30 3-Series Factory Production Tour (1080p HD, 15:00)

Kind of scary...

[MineralMan]

8. Almost untouched by human hands...

[JoeStuckInOH]

11. Not sure why the multiple posts highlighting people vs. automation. nt

[brooklynite]

12. I'll ask the same question I asked in the thread about Tesla automation...

How many people insisted on having an Operator place their phone calls today?

[fescuerescue]

13. I toured several circuit board manufactures in around 1990

Motorola manufacturing what would later be called Internet equipment and a protocol analyzer company, who names escape me at the moment and who went out of business a decade ago.

Anyway, The ratio of people to robots looks about the same as I remember it. Certainly the hand work was the same as before,
not greater or less.

But what really stood out to me was the speed. The robots of this video are MANY MANY times faster than the robots of 1990.
Easily 10 times faster.

Which means they are producing 10 times the product today, with the same number of people.