.. actually, it's more about the equivalent of robot illegal-immigrants, in that the fear is that they'll take our jobs and lower our wages. The fight for a $15 minimum wage is great, but it's going to morph into a fight for an equivalent to a guaranteed minimum wage. Personally, I think it should be a fight to take food/lodging/healthcare out of the economic system. Maybe we'll get there when the real impact of these hits. It's weird to me that this issue is so under-the-radar. It's not being ignored, exactly, but even global warming (another fate-of-civilization issue that's underplayed compared to its impact) generates more action.

but this blows apart the argument about our high minimum wage being the motivation for businesses to replace workers with robots. China, not the "high-wage" U.S., is adopting them faster than we are. And using them to replace their lowest-paid workers!

https://www.electronicproducts.com/R...th_robots.aspx

Quote ..as of last year, the move toward automation is playing out faster in East Asia: 35 Taiwanese companies—including Foxconn—have invested 4 billion Yuan (approximately $609 million USD) on artificial intelligence. These companies employ tens of thousands of people within 505 factories located along Kunshan, the province known as the manufacturing hub of the electronics industry. The South China Morning Post reports that two-thirds of working population are migrant workers.