In order to dull the blow, we started moving all our manufacturing jobs overseas to slowly prepare our population for when these jobs suddenly dissapear.
So instead of suffering all at once, western countries have been tapering off of manufacturing over many years.
Also, what happens to a country like China, who is completely addicted to manufacturing money, when the hammer falls?
Finally, to completely prevent population instability, they introduced the clott shot right before the robotics revolution is scheduled to kick into gear, removing the final leftover elements of the population that are still dependent on these soon to be extinct jobs to survive.
well said.
there is a pressing issue, however, of automating manufacturing processes with robotics. it's rapidly replacing the lowest skill workers. now consider the vast majority of illegal immigrants who don't have the capacity to ascend to more complex work. they already account for the majority of social security payments. and they are easiest to control. and those they can't control, kill, or disable, they'll declare a dissident.
We keep trying to automate things at work. All the machines have managed to do is replace one highly trained operator with two or three low skill technicians that keep the machine supplies.
The other factor is, the investment to actually replace a work force with complete automation is out of reach of all but the largest companies.