10-06-2018, 09:13 PM
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Originally Posted by Frownland
Perspective = feeling really sorry for how hard you have it while also being incredibly envious about how great your life is, right?
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FOAD Frowny. 
For those of you living in a cliche'd bubble about what factories are like in China:
A Dirty Word In The U.S., 'Automation' Is A Buzzword In China | Bostonomix
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In the United States, automation may be a politically dirty word. But in China, it's a buzzword for politicians and CEOs.
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Last year, China was by far the largest market for robots, with sales nearly equal to all of Europe and the United States combined.
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China President Xi Jinping has laid out an ambitious plan called MadeInChina2025 encouraging automation to ensure companies keep advanced manufacturing in the country.
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"The Chinese approach is less hamstrung by some of the political debates that we face in the United States," said Gregory Allen, a fellow at the Center for a New American Security who previously worked with the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy and advised a number of robotic startups around Boston. "So, for instance, in the United States right now, there’s a lot of concern over unemployment through automation of jobs. That is just not as much of a concern in China."
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"Right now, their primary problem in China is a labor shortage, not an unemployment crisis," Allen said.
The labor shortage he's referring to is tied to the country's prior one-child policy. By 2040, China's workforce is expected to shrink by 90 million people, according to data from the World Bank.
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“The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well,
on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away
and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.”
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