Comment by evenhash
13 hours ago
This is already a thing? Just replace “robots” with “machines”.
And yet I see videos all the time of Indians running contraptions straight out of the steam age in their shacks to make plastic straws or sandals. Or just doing it by hand. Better machines to do these tasks already exist, but are obviously too expensive for them to afford. Why would these hypothetical robots be any more affordable or disruptive to Indian workers in particular?
If anything I think American blue collars would be the ones to worry about.
Yes, can confirm. Labor is extremely cheap in India, which makes any automation too expensive. The offering would have to be drastically cheaper. Small to medium businesses don't usually buy machines/software unless absolutely necessary, because they can simply throw more people at it for a fraction of the cost.