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https://greekreporter.com/2024/11/27/south-korea-robots-workforce/
Ten Percent of South Korea’s Workforce Replaced by Robots
An annual survey by the International Federation of Robotics
found that more than 10 percent of South Korea’s workforce
has been replaced by robots. The survey shows that labor
markets in Asia are leading an upward global growth trend
in the amount of robots used for labor.
South Korea leads this transition to a robotic workforce,
as the survey shows the country currently has 1,012 robots
per 10,000 employees.
. . .
Admittedly, S.Korea (along with Japan) is barely making
babies anymore. This creates an ever-larger gap at the
lower rungs of the employment ladder. Life became good
and secure enough so people realized they didn't need
huge fams.
So, if no "new guys" - install robots, lots and lots
of robots. At the rate described there soon won't BE
many "people jobs" left in industry - and beyond.
Normally xenophobic Japan has been importing large
numbers of workers the past years, from Vietnam
and the Arabic world ... even central Africa.
There comes a POINT where saying "Japan" or "Korea"
becomes lie ... more just a geographic description ...
because there aren't enough natives left to carry
on the culture/traditions/mindset. That's when
those countries are dead, extinct, terminated,
naught but R2D2s waiting for orders that
never come ..........
SO - how long for the USA, the UK, the EU ??? Half
a dozen big 'AI' entities are plotting to put YOU
out of a job. They imagine some kind of economic
boom when there's no need to pay or deal with all
those annoying human workers. Of course they MISS
the obvious question - if few are working, who BUYS
yer cheaper products ? It's biz suicide.
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