tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8497093028548856666.post117789426499059168..comments2024-03-22T11:14:05.861-04:00Comments on UncleBob's Treehouse: "The End of Chinese Manufacturing and Rebirth of U.S. Industry"Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16046202647270439670noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8497093028548856666.post-52195276922593453112015-09-29T13:26:03.183-04:002015-09-29T13:26:03.183-04:00"I spend a lot of time around college kids wh..."I spend a lot of time around college kids who are almost 20 years younger than me."<br /><br />The university I attended when 18 now has a three-story building devoted to engineering. When I was there it was just a department that took up half a floor. There are a lot of students, all Americans.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16046202647270439670noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8497093028548856666.post-66785937739080007942015-09-21T16:34:57.656-04:002015-09-21T16:34:57.656-04:00"Sure, manufacturing may come back to the US...."Sure, manufacturing may come back to the US. But what does it matter to the average American worker whether jobs are outsourced to China or outsourced to robots? They're still out of jobs."<br /><br />The best case would probably be some sort of quasi Amish/distributist scheme. If the economy no longer needs 99% of the human population, people must invent a new economy.Rusty Shacklefordnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8497093028548856666.post-7397689920221928872015-09-19T09:58:39.298-04:002015-09-19T09:58:39.298-04:00Sure, manufacturing may come back to the US. But w...Sure, manufacturing may come back to the US. But what does it matter to the average American worker whether jobs are outsourced to China or outsourced to robots? They're still out of jobs.Robert What?https://www.blogger.com/profile/03863449539859132763noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8497093028548856666.post-16200282972379688902015-09-19T02:35:04.899-04:002015-09-19T02:35:04.899-04:00"America's science and technology have tr..."America's science and technology have truly created the ultimate idiocracy. Look at our leaders. Obama should have been laughed out of the election race before he even stepped into it. Kerry is a joke. You know all about Jeb. Speak to me of automation and factories? Fah - our universities are churning out socialist idiots so fast, we can't find jobs for them. Those diploma mills are graduating grievance mongerers that will sew other seeds of our own destruction: the race and class wars are already in progress. "<br /><br /><br />I'm back in school working on an engineering degree, so I spend a lot of time around college kids who are almost 20 years younger than me. People love to dump on the millennials, but they are good kids in my experience. They had the same indoctrination or worse as what I had in the public schools, so of course they are mostly liberal to some degree. They are at least a lot less nasty and cynical than my generation, and I mostly just feel sorry for them. <br /><br />Aside from that, I'd just point out that white people in the US aren't really getting stupider, and the absolute number of white people isn't shrinking much. The percentage of whites who voted for a candidate like Romney was actually higher than Reagan got. This had more to do with more whites realizing that democrats and minorities are actively hostile towards them than it did with support for a crap candidate like Romney or his worthless policies. Now four years later we're close to an all out white riot with Trump. <br /><br />Sure, we'll keep seeing impressive technological stuff happening in the future. Bob is right, though, that the majority of the population isn't likely to play any more a part in it than they did in Silicon Valley. What the hell they will be doing is the big question. And what happens as the technology continues to advance to the point where even more of the population is economically useless? Even if they aren't starving because of welfare and high technology, there's no reason to think that whites won't be susceptible to the same behaviour sink that blacks have been experiencing for half a century. It will probably take a very different form, but the end result is likely to be the same and will not be pretty.<br /><br /><br /><br />Rusty Shacklefordnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8497093028548856666.post-27629771875228791022015-09-18T02:43:33.387-04:002015-09-18T02:43:33.387-04:00Autodesk CEO Carl Bass says that just as we have c...<i>Autodesk CEO Carl Bass says that just as we have created new, higher-paying jobs in every other industrial transition, we will create a new set of industries and professions in this one. Look at the new types of jobs and multi-billion dollar businesses that the Internet and mobile industries created—these came out of nowhere and changed our lives, Bass says.<br /></i><br /><br />Yes, that's technically correct, but misleading.<br /><br />An old-fashioned car factory might employ 500 middle-class workers in one town. A 21st century car might employ five middle-class workers in the same town, supported by globalized logistics and perhaps robots.<br /><br />Going from 500 jobs to 5 jobs is not a huge win for the economy.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12704138514291909427noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8497093028548856666.post-33939857017090839302015-09-17T18:05:38.889-04:002015-09-17T18:05:38.889-04:00That's one of the most hopeful articles you...That's one of the most hopeful articles you've put on your blog in a long time. I was glad to read it.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8497093028548856666.post-74135615627208777332015-09-17T17:09:27.392-04:002015-09-17T17:09:27.392-04:00I'm with Glen on this one.
Also if by some mi...I'm with Glen on this one.<br /><br />Also if by some miracle we manage to have an automation breakthrough, it will do nothing except make more socialism and idiocy. <br /><br />Light out factories with robots make goods, robots load them onto self driving trucks, unload them at the store with self checkout <br /><br />We do dispense with a lot of the labor component of cost but suddenly boom, no one out there to buy them. <br /><br />This already happened to Japan when they stopped being able to push their goods onto the US. Some of this was cheaper Chinese labor and such but automation is what killed the US market. No good jobs here, less customers for more expensive imports <br /><br />Its also why something like 40% of the economy is government now. fewer good jobs means either economic collapse or a bigger state. I'll always bet on the latter. <br /><br />The "market" than becomes SJW's bureaucrats , pensioners and welfare bums, corporate and private, <br /><br />And the current "solution", more immigrants is suicide for exactly the reasons Glen stated.<br /><br />In the end we have an efficiency trap.<br /><br />As for a way out, assuming one had the power, you'd start with mass deportation. I think we could deport 50 million or so. <br /><br />After that gradually lower the work week, tweak the tax code to favor middle/working class jobs and eventually you'd move to social credit, cut everyone a check. <br /><br />The population will still decline which is natural and healthy with urbanization. Deal with it. <br /><br />If that could be made to work and there are a lot of cultural reasons it might not, you'd end up with a basically mostly working class nation anyway, <br /><br />The Middle dies from a lack of need for them , The poor are lifted up and the rich taxed down. <br /><br />if we get very lucky, the high levels of efficiency allow the working lass to work pretty well. <br /><br />if not, as Cappy Cap says "Enjoy the Decline" <br /><br />A.B. Prospernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8497093028548856666.post-75744077747427132552015-09-17T15:59:10.885-04:002015-09-17T15:59:10.885-04:00Dammit, Captain Capitalism is smoking the same cru...Dammit, Captain Capitalism is smoking the same crud you are!!! It makes me want to vomit with rage when you dirty old hippies corrupt our youth!!! :)<br /><br />Consider: America's science and technology have truly created the ultimate idiocracy. Look at our leaders. Obama should have been laughed out of the election race before he even stepped into it. Kerry is a joke. You know all about Jeb. Speak to me of automation and factories? Fah - our universities are churning out socialist idiots so fast, we can't find jobs for them. Those diploma mills are graduating grievance mongerers that will sew other seeds of our own destruction: the race and class wars are already in progress. Who can forget the black lady in Ferguson that had her business burned down during that racial chimp-out? I cannot see a viable factory being able to run in black dominated cities. Detroit springs to mind. Because envy is driven by stupidity, most leftists are driven by it. That is why when blacks riot - the first thing they do is attack the successful people and businesses in their very own neighbourhoods.<br /><br />Although the American Idiocracy can sustain itself on its home grown idiots quite well - it is not content to do so. It is now importing more by the hundreds of thousands from Mexico and South America. These people are also envious and will destroy anyone who succeeds in America just as they did in South America.<br /><br />America's expanding parasite and welfare class will not sit down and learn how to work 3D printers, CNC machines, microprocessor control systems and all the basic building blocks of the manufactory. A staggering majority of them cannot read or speak fluently. Still more do not have the mindset or the work ethics required to succeed, Bob - it has been bred out of them by entire generations of welfare.<br /><br />We've seen it any number of times: technology does not trump stupidity.Glen Filthiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03256741311142364722noreply@blogger.com