Foxconn replaces '60,000 factory workers with robots'
This is what I&#x27;ve been thinking for quite a while but what allot of people seem to ignore  - the &quot;AI revolution&quot; can very well &quot;only&quot; hit developing nations while skipping the developed ones.<p>Better, smarter robots are a threat to Chinese workers, not so much to say Dutch or Canadian workers.<p>The west can afford and is willing to pay more even for less, just look at how many people are willing to pay 10 times the price for &quot;Organic Fare Traded Tomatoes&quot; or any other &quot;artisan&quot; goods.<p>The west is also not as much dependent on manufacturing and the manufacturing it does do is usually high tech, low(er) volume and highly specialized one where it both might not make sense to automate everything and where people are more than willing to pay the extra to know that something was &quot;hand crafted&quot;.<p>But overall we&#x27;ve developed a consumer culture especially in the past decade that is pretty much focused on retro&#x2F;old school craftsmanship, small scale production and &quot;artisan&quot; touches, it almost makes one wonder if the whole &quot;hipster revolution&quot; wasn&#x27;t hand crafted by some cabal of shadowy figures that foresaw the &quot;rise of the machines&quot;, because our willingness to pay 250$ for a hand crafted hemp bag on etsy is just might be the thing that would protect us from AI automation.