Terry Gou, announced a plan in 2011 to purchase 1 million robots over the next three years to supplement the approximately 1 million human workers he employs. Gou has come under fire for his factories’ poor working conditions and labor mistreatment. Many workers live inside the factory itself and work up to twelve hours a day, six days a week. But what happens to Gou’s 1 million human workers when they have 1 million robot coworkers? While the robots are designed to work alongside humans, they’re also designed to keep Gou from having to hire more humans, effectively ending job creation in his
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