A few weeks ago I posted links to an artists images representative of the vast quantities of things that America consumes in various time periods, cell phones per year, water bottles per day, etc. The vast scale of this stream of waste is incredible, but once comprehended one must ask the question, where does all that stuff come from? There must be factories full of robotic assembly lines that manufacture this stuff at a blinding rate!
Not quite. There are massive factories, but no robots. Those incredible streams of stuff are made by Chinese factor workers in mind-bogglingly large factories. An endless stream of cheap human labor produces all the fine goods we turn into trash at an ever-increasing rate.
Endless Assembly Lines and Giant Cafeterias; Inside China's Vast Factories
Not quite. There are massive factories, but no robots. Those incredible streams of stuff are made by Chinese factor workers in mind-bogglingly large factories. An endless stream of cheap human labor produces all the fine goods we turn into trash at an ever-increasing rate.
Endless Assembly Lines and Giant Cafeterias; Inside China's Vast Factories
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