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While I appreciate the advances in technology to sew garments, I wonder how this will negatively impact the economies, which are thriving because of the garment
by svepuri 11y ago
While I appreciate the advances in technology to sew garments, I wonder how this will negatively impact the economies, which are thriving because of the garment business.
- emersonrsantos 11y agoThe workers just really need to shift functions from craftwork to technical. Since the industrial revolution, that's the way it goes.
- jonah 11y agoUnfortunately, the more automation, fewer and more skilled workers are needed. That's always been the case and will only continue to happen. People will be able to specialize and diversify more.
- svepuri 11y agoYou mean these workers need to be trained to handle machines? Perhaps thats going to be a huge challenge for the middle-age workers, who would have lived all their lives doing the craft work. Survival of the fittest!
- JeffreyKaine 11y agoAs good an argument for universal basic income as I've ever seen.
- s73v3r 11y agoWon't happen. These are mostly poor countries. What'll happen is these people will be cast aside, and forgotten.
- 6d0debc071 11y agoTo be fair, that seems to be much of how it functions in richer countries as well. It's not as bad if you're well educated, have other strengths and a bit of money laid up. But if you're a minimum wage factory operative or warehouse worker or one of the other relatively unskilled low-paid jobs, then the thing that you're good at vanishing can leave you in a very hard place; very limited funding to retrain and limited options for doing so even where such funding can be managed.
- nkoren 11y agoBasic income works in poor countries too: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_income_in_India https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_income_in_India
- on_ 11y agoIndia has 1.23 Billion[0] people in it, and that wikipedia article is quite short, with only 4 sources. They don't cite any of the sources for the figure which stated 6460 people are in the program. The program serves %0.000005 of India, or in much more familiar terms, if implemented at the same scale in America it would help slightly less people than there were killed by lions in Tanzania over the trailing 20 years[1]. [0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_India https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_India [2]http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/earth/wildlife/5149977/Top-10-deadliest-animals-on-the-planet.html http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/earth/wildlife/5149977/Top-1... [3]Off by one errors.
- nkoren 11y agoIt's a pilot program, not a nationwide initiative. That said, the economics of it would be positive if applied nationwide. If you're interested in the pilot, it's documented very extensively in this book, which the Wikipedia article ought to be referencing: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Income-Renana-Jhabvala-Soumya-Standing/dp/1472583116/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1444224784&sr=8-1&keywords=basic+income+in+india http://www.amazon.co.uk/Income-Renana-Jhabvala-Soumya-Standi...
- rymndhng 11y agoIf we take away the `thing` that defines garment works (despite how unfulfilling we see the work), I hope that society does not leave these people behind to fend for themselves (and use the new efficiencies for earning money to re-train & re-tool these individuals.