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fasttense

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3. The crap I've read here for the last several days about how robotics and technology
Fri Oct 4, 2013, 07:17 AM
Oct 2013

has replaced labor really fails to take into account the huge amount of labor performed in sweat shops all over the world. Try making a sweater or dress with just technology. Try cleaning up your toilet, bath or counter tops with technology.

Human labor is still very heavily used. It's just more rare here in the US because they have moved most of the factories to 3rd world sweat shops Americans don't have to look at. Yet we get to buy 3rd world sweat shops, prison or child labor products at 1st world prices. What would happen if we didn't allow this crap into our markets. I'm sure there are thousand of Americans who would gladly take back those markets stolen by foreign corporations.

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