An interesting story on how US bureaucrats have destroyed the economy of American Samoa by mandating the price of labor.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_LaPGIIAyk4
Sixstrings wrote:Guys.. it's not the minimum wage that destroyed the jobs, it was outsourcing to FREAKING ROBOTS, ok?
Outcast_Searcher wrote:Six, I hear you, but technology will continue to move ahead. The question is, how do we deal with that? (I'm a moderate who voted for Obama, BTW).
STARKIST SAMOA Automated Conveyor System--Starkist is based in Pago Pago, American Samoa, tinning tuna for the US market. They needed an engineering solution which could speed up production of sorting, dumping and filing cans from 500
cans per minute to 1,200 can per minute.
The deadline for this project was six months and Patton’s was able to complete this early. Patton Engineering exceeded the customer’s expectations for this project. They were aiming to increase production to 1,200 cans per minute and Patton’s new machine processes up to 1,600 cans per minute. Once piece of equipment replaced four existing processes, with mechanical, electrical, hydraulic and pneumatic processes all in the one piece of machinery. pdf
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