Put this in the Economy forum but could be here...bad news for manufacturing jobs

[OnlinePoker]

Reboot: Adidas to make shoes in Germany again – but using robots

Adidas, the German maker of sportswear and equipment, has announced it will start marketing its first series of shoes manufactured by robots in Germany from 2017.

More than 20 years after Adidas ceased production activities in Germany and moved them to Asia, chief executive Herbert Hainer unveiled to the press the group’s new prototype “Speedfactory” in Ansbach, southern Germany.

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/may/25/adidas-to-sell-robot-made-shoes-from-2017

[bjo59]

1. Yes, a lot of articles recently on the reality of robots replacing workers altogether in the

near future. People should spare a minute or two to think about what the solution is going to be for huge masses of unemployed people who still have to eat. The corporations who finally won't have to pay a dime in human labor costs are unlikely to suddenly get charitable and provide food for redundant human beings.... millions upon millions upon millions of them across the world. Wonder what the global elite's plan for this one is?

[jwirr]

2. Read: "People Get Ready. The Fight Against a Jobless Economy

and a Citizenless Democracy" by Robert McChesney and John Nichols.

[titaniumsalute]

3. Well when we are all dead I wonder what the robots will do?

[angstlessk]

5. Bury us n/t

[bluesbassman]

7. While wearing Addidas sneakers.

Wonder if Addidas will give them an employee discount, or just charge them full price to keep the bottom line up so that the .01% that's left on the planet will keep getting stock dividends?

[angstlessk]

4. Will the tag say 'created by a ROBOT'?

if not why not?

[Brickbat]

6. No one even mouths the lies of "increased leisure" anymore.

[The Straight Story]

8. Company outsourced to find cheap, near slave, labor and still not good enough. So....

Why should we believe them when they say that the min wage is a burden to them? ANY wage is a burden to the few.