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Beartracks

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2. If "assembly can be done here as well as anywhere else"...

Reply to pampango (Original post)

Sun Dec 9, 2012, 03:11 AM

Dec 2012

... since "people [just] do things like fitting in batteries and snapping on screens," does that mean that manufacturers will expect to pay American assembly workers a pittance similar to what they pay to workers in the developing world?

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Krugman: Rise of robots and the reshoring” of manufacturing to the United States [View all] pampango Dec 2012 OP

Every factory you need to fill up with robots... high density Dec 2012 #1

If "assembly can be done here as well as anywhere else"... Beartracks Dec 2012 #2

"Robots mean that labor costs don’t matter much..." so there should be less pressure on wages, but pampango Dec 2012 #3

The graph is the take home message quaker bill Dec 2012 #4