For decades, manufacturers employed waves of young migrant workers from China's countryside to work at countless factories in coastal provinces, churning out cheap toys, clothing and electronics that helped power the country's economic ascent.
Now, factories are rapidly replacing those workers with automation, a pivot that's encouraged by rising wages and new official directives aimed at helping the country move away from low-cost manufacturing as the supply of young, pliant workers shrinks.
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"... as the supply of young, pliant workers shrinks"? Have the Chinese instituted some new birth control program?
Same question again: As robots take over all the factory, agricultural, and wholesale and retail jobs, what do all the humans do to "earn a living"?
That is a question which has no answer.
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