China Building Robot Worker Army

Here is a sign of things to come, perhaps the most important development in our lifetime:

Wages in Shanghai have more than doubled in the past seven years, and the company that owns the factory, Cambridge Industries Group, faces fierce competition from increasingly high-tech operations in Germany, Japan, and the United States. To address both of these problems, CIG wants to replace two-thirds of its 3,000 workers with machines this year. Within a few more years, it wants the operation to be almost entirely automated, creating a so-called “dark factory.” The idea is that with so few people around, you could switch the lights off and leave the place to the machines.

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When factories go dark around the globe, what happens to all the former workers? And who will have money to buy what the robots produce?

These are two extremely important questions which are not being addressed publicly by the powers that be. What do you suppose they're planning when they meet in secret?

My guess is they are coming up with a way to cull the herd of useless human eaters. Maybe we'll be sold to ETs.