Robots, manufacturing, middle class, what I kept saying for years
 

On Tue, 05 Feb 2013 20:40:53 -0500, Tom Gardner Mars@Tacks
wrote:
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The new PLC controlled
machine produces over 1,250 units/day and takes *NO* skill. So, 12
times the production per employee or 11 less employees.
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While this sounds good in the short term and on a
microeconomic basis, your employees are someone else's
customers. If no one has jobs, who will be able to buy the
merchandise no matter how inexpensively it can be produced?
If the jobs are all so low pay everything must go for food,
how will even the employed be able to afford what you make?
If your product is not a consumer item, why will the
producers need to purchase it, it they aren't selling
anything?