Why China isn’t Scared of Robots

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[youcantata]

Not just China, South Korea is also become robot heaven. She has the highest robot deployment per capita or GDP in the world. Not just car factory floor, but restaurant kitchen on the street corner, many robots are widely deployed in Korean factories and stores, shops at breakneck speed.

[haobowang]

LOL he literally puts Mihoyo's motto "Tech Otakus change the World" in Chinese on the thumbnail

[kevinsips]

I like that they call it overtaking on a bend. Regardless of the implications, it’s a cool term to use.

[theredbar-cross]

The point about being "permanently" rooted to your place of birth simply isn't true. If it were, you wouldn't have massive migration out of the Chinese Rust Belt of the Northeast. There are many ways to relocate your "hukou" (residence permit), and hundreds of millions of Chinese have done it, probably closer to a billion over the last 40 years of industrialization.

[ribaldi]

Used to work at Silicon Valley. Overworking engineers isn’t unique to China.

[TL-fesi]

China simply have too many educated engineers, workers. "You don't want to work 996, fine. There will be plenty of people who would take that offer to replace you. Perhaps someone from a worse economic background, etc." is a common response I see when people argue about working conditions in China. The supply of talent is larger than the demand due to China's earlier policies expanding higher education.

[yibosun]

Heilongjiang is obviously a NorthEASTERN province at 0:24 when you show it on the map, not Northwestern.

[HenningGu]

14:55

I went to China last month and the sheer number of delivery workers and "Uber" drivers in Shanghai was staggering. And it still isn't enough to fulfill the demand, all of the Meituan delivery drivers had multiple orders to deliver at the same time.

[PhilCrimmins]

15:30 this point is out of date. Delivery drivers were indeed reckless until it became a social issue back in 2021z since then, they’ve changed the regulations and the repercussions of being late are negligible

[dwcpeef]

The image in 3:25 is the typical town view of south eastern China. For the north eastern region, you may just grab a image of any Khrushchyovka community rather than leaving people with utterly false image

[TheGIGACapitalist]

If social services are tied to where you are born doesn't that basically incentivize stagnation in those areas that have fallen behind?

[Calslock]

6:05 Hmm... I'm pretty sure US didn't exist during neither medieval nor renaissance era...

[MattsAwesomeStuff]

"This is China's northwestern province of Heilongjiang." ... *province is in the north-east, not west*

[yiluo]

4:08 this is simply NOT true, most people in the big cities like Shanghai, Shenzhen are from other places of China.

[james]

China: doubles down in technology
West: at what cost?

[JamesChenisKing]

I was born in Harbin 40+ years ago. That place was nothing but cold. But it’s not as drab as you make it out to look. Harbin especially is pretty metropolitan.

[Yin_Esra]

At 10:07, that's not China, that's Minsk, Belarus :)

[obsidianstatue]

Sure Heilongjiang is a rustbelt province, but the cities and towns are WAY better managed than that of the US rustbelts.
Social services, city renewals are all happening despite the rustbelt status.
This is because China's centralized fiscal system.
Ironically the few images of "rust belt" neighborhoods you used in the video are from old neighborhoods of Shanghai.

[Alexa-hhso]

the "optimistic about the future" stat is pretty dated i think. alot has happened since 2015

[VinLim]

It is unfortunate that this video was built on so many false information. From the location of Heilongjiang, to the Chinese aspirations, the inter-provincial hukou system, to the policy motivation. Coupled with many choice of words and narrative unfortunately made this a straight up hit piece