Foxconn is recently (in)famous for the number and frequency of worker suicides. Apparently it's the worst place to work since the building of the pyramids. Super long days, no days off, soul killing labor that is mindless and repetitive, soul killing labor that is mindless and repetitive, and crap benefits have all come together to make a nasty little soup of suck for the folks who work there.
Now, in an effort to reduce human misery, the company is going to replace these sad/angry/chinese workers with robots. With a million robots.
I see several problems with this:
1) Will laying off enough people to hire a million robots reduce the misery of those people? "Unemployed in China" doesn't sound nearly as appealing as "overworked yet still employed in China."
2) Am I the only one having problems with the concept of a MILLION robots?
3) If you put a million robots together in what is arguably the worst job in the world (that isn't taste tester for stool samples) they will only decide that much sooner to kill us all. And we'll deserve it. They need weekends, bro...
Bonus additional problem:
The worker bots look just like Han-s, the Masseuer/Boxer-bot from Wall-E, and look how much trouble HE fucking caused.
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| First the Foxconn 'bots, also notice the "kill me now" face on the worker. |
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| Granted, it's not exact, but the similarities are too great to ignore. |
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