To Manage one million animals gives me a headache:Terry Gou of Foxconn

Foxconn has not disclosed how many workers will be displaced or when. But its chairman, Terry Gou, has publicly endorsed a growing use of robots. Speaking of his more than one million employees worldwide, he said in January, according to the official Xinhua news agency: “As human beings are also animals, to manage one million animals gives me a headache.”

The falling costs and growing sophistication of robots have touched off a renewed debate among economists and technologists over how quickly jobs will be lost. This year, Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee, economists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, made the case for a rapid transformation. “The pace and scale of this encroachment into human skills is relatively recent and has profound economic implications,” they wrote in their book, “Race Against the Machine.”

 

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New Wave of Deft Robots Is Changing Global Industry - NYTimes.com

This point of view I understand. In some of my businesses I owned I tried to use humans as little as possible but often hired them for one day or two for big jobs instead. Hiring an employee just makes everything more difficult than it needs to be unless they are relatives or friends. This is my point of view too.