Posted on 12/08/2023 10:38:18 AM PST by Red Badger
“TVs are considered disposable commodities now and not economic to repair vs. replace.”
That is true and we could generalize and say that many products are so cheap to produce, and there are so many of them, that a repairman can’t keep up with how to fix them.
The costs of transportation, packaging and selling the products often exceed their manufacturing cost.
We have a massive flow from the raw material sources to the junk yards.
Thank you very much, Mr. Roboto
For doing the jobs nobody wants to
Domo arigato, Mr. Roboto
Chinese made robots will have a 50 % fail rate out of the box. The other 50% will last for a few jobs before failing. ( think harbor freight). The potential is a huge demand for human repair techs.
They need a war to kill off the men who will no longer be employed. Three quarters of a billion sounds about right.
Why do robots need to have female figures and breast-like forms on their bodies? They’re robots.
I’m sure someone out there will have a fetish.
“The potential is a huge demand for human repair techs.”
Good point. There’s plenty of stuff needing repair other than consumer electronics. You can include software in that.
When I see one, I’ll use my Taser to find their “Achilles heel”. Them score one for the humans.
“In Two Years, China Plans to Unleash Mass-Produced Humanoid Robots to Replace Human Worker”
Another fake news story released by the ChiComm propagandists.
Cherry 2000
That's their plan for Brainless Joe.
Just recalling the history of tech and porn, if you don’t think that sex robots will be a “thing”, you haven’t a clue. VCRs and the Internet were both hugely driven by porn. I remember back in the days of Spring COMDEX in Atlanta, there was a porn tech exhibition that piggybacked on that in a nearby venue.
Consider that the Chinese have a huge preponderance of males in many age cohorts due to societal desire for male children. Female children got aborted. Those excess males alone are a *huge* market for sexbots.
I’m not asking you to like it, I don’t like it. But I’m realistic about it.
I would be leery of getting intimate with a piece of machinery. Who knows what kind of “features” it might be hiding?
I’m not denying that others might think a female shaped kitchen appliance is “sexy,” but I sure don’t.
I have no intentions there, but am realistic about the market and there being people working on bringing products to it.
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