The median salary in China is 26,800 Yuan (USD 3,855) per month. ^1

I mean this is China. This is the one-child policy coming to bite them in the ass.

I've had a job posting up for 3 months in the Midwest USA for a couple of warehouse positions starting at $25 an hour and I'm barely even getting any applicants. We still have a few boomers and GenX in the warehouse but the millennials (like me) and GenZ went to college so they aren't looking for these jobs, at least around here. We're a very small company so the weird thing to me is that this is an easier warehouse than Amazon to work in, by far, and the Amazon hub 10 miles down the road has no problem staffing, even though they only pay $16.00/hr and their benefits sucks ass compared to what we offer. The average warehouse pay in my area for my industry is $18 an hour.

Unemployment is at record lows here but there are still huge staff shortages. It's why my government is pushing for bringing in refugees and allowing more foreign workers.

How about "NO"?

Well there is now!

UBI is an inevitable future. the only question is when, not if. And probably the countries that will be able to create a better law quicker than others will get a decent economic advantage over the conservative ones.

In "Theory" it would drive down priced and the people buying from these places would have more money to spend elsewhere.

Theory in air quotes because regardless if it work out in the end it still takes away a lot of power from labors.

And that will push capitalism to the breaking point. We'll see what happens then, although many very bad scenarios are possible.

I'm actually pretty sure these robots aren't going anywhere, and that this is a PR push.

The intended market for these robots is countries where there's an aging demographic curve, meaning there simply aren't enough young able-bodied people to fill the jobs that need them no matter what salary you were to offer.

In countries where there's enough people for these jobs I expect human labor will remain cheaper for quite a while yet.

So far, every piece of automatization created more jobs, and those jobs were ultimately better. Unfortunately people who works automated jobs will have to adapt, but the hope is, the society will help them with that.

I don't want a factory job though. I want a world that's organised well enough that people don't starve when you don't have menial labour for them to waste their lives on to justify being fed.

feeding and housing is just logistics and we're good at that. let the robots do physical work and continue feeding people as before.