Like the title says, how likely is this? I understand that the material conditions don’t really support it. Additionally, porky is just fine keeping manufacturing over-seas if it means more profit.
Obviously such a move would take decades and would be wrought with environmental havoc. But if not for profit, what if the US government sees it as strategically smart to wean it self from dependence on foreign manufacturing? What sorts of tricks could it pull to return manufacturing to the US?
Probably closer than you think, but with robots doing the work instead of people
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Self-checkout is just you doing free labor for the retailer
dunno what you're doing wrong, they usually pay me at least $25 worth of free goods to scan my own shit
is it really that easy to shoplift?
Lmao yes
it really is! i recommend only stealing smaller stuff that you're buying multiples of, especially at first. easier to claim operator/scanner error if you do ever get caught
but i've literally shoplifted while talking directly to an employee, most people just don't notice or care
That's just the cost of doing business.
Yeah but I get to avoid speaking to anyone.
Yeah just ignore that Ikea has been making out like gangbusters for years.
you can't extract surplus value from a robot it doesn't work
Ian Wright has an article on this where basically any machine-generated and human-less (ie. no variable capital employed in a particular production process although it is employed in creating the machines in the first place) surplus value is mostly temporary while the firm has no competition. Only the change in surplus value can be done by humans.