Tax the terminator: Chinese adviser calls for levy to stop robots taking over the workplace | South China Morning Post | March 2018 For years, we have been warned that the day will come when machines will be able to do our jobs better than we can. Now a leading Chinese economist is offering a time frame.
Tax the terminator: Chinese adviser calls for levy to stop robots taking over the workplace | South China Morning Post | March 2018 For years, we have been warned that the day will come when machines will be able to do our jobs better than we can. Now a leading Chinese economist is offering a time frame.
THE COBALT PIPELINE: Tracing the path from deadly hand-dug mines in Congo to consumers’ phones and laptops | Washington Post | September 2016 The world’s soaring demand for cobalt is at times met by workers, including children, who labor in harsh and dangerous conditions. An estimated 100,000 cobalt miners in Congo use hand tools to dig hundreds of feet underground
THE COBALT PIPELINE: Tracing the path from deadly hand-dug mines in Congo to consumers’ phones and laptops | Washington Post | September 2016 The world’s soaring demand for cobalt is at times met by workers, including children, who labor in harsh and dangerous conditions. An estimated 100,000 cobalt miners in Congo use hand tools to dig hundreds of feet underground
Everything We Knew About Sweatshops Was Wrong | New York Times | April 2017 To our surprise, most people who got an industrial job soon changed their minds. A majority quit within the first months. They ended up doing what those who had not gotten the job offers did — going back to the family farm, taking a construction job
Everything We Knew About Sweatshops Was Wrong | New York Times | April 2017 To our surprise, most people who got an industrial job soon changed their minds. A majority quit within the first months. They ended up doing what those who had not gotten the job offers did — going back to the family farm, taking a construction job
iPhone manufacturer Foxconn is replacing 60,000 workers with robots | South China Morning Post | May 2016 “The Foxconn factory has reduced its employee strength from 110,000 to 50,000, thanks to the introduction of robots. It has tasted success in reduction of labour costs,” said the department’s head Xu Yulian. References: Julia Limitone, “Fmr. McDonald’s USA CEO: $35K Robots Cheaper