Franchise God - Chapter 1230



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Franchise God Episode 1230

Chapter 284 Experiment for Capitalists (6)

Young Japanese economists have expressed concern that the introduction of robots in swimming farms is leading to mass unemployment among skilled workers in key manufacturing industries.

“I have a bad feeling about this.”

“Android Freedom is taking too many jobs. The unemployed have nowhere to go.”

“Automobiles, shipbuilding, semiconductors, chemicals, textiles, fibers… Android Freedom has already taken over all the factories, displacing employees.”

“It would be better if we stop here… but Android Freedom won’t keep coming in, right?”

“No way. There’s no way there’s going to be that many Android Freedoms left over, each costing $50 million.”

Economists who had been trying to turn the happiness circuit on soon discovered a shocking truth.

“The purchase price of Android Freedom components is only $1.5 million!”

“What? No, I clearly heard it was 50 million dollars….”

“American robot companies are said to be recovering all initial investment costs and providing parts exclusively to swimming farms at a reasonable margin.”

“Only $1.5 million.”

$1.5 million for season 1 is too cheap.

It’s a price that’s worth considering as a complete replacement for human workers.

The swimming farm would of course know that too.

“The newly contracted quantity this time alone is enough to produce an additional 400,000 units.”

“They say 400,000 more are coming in here!”

“No! This must be stopped!”

The faces of Japanese economic experts have turned pale.

400,000 units would be enough to replace at least 1.6 million jobs. As many as 1.6 million Japanese people would lose their jobs.

Economic experts quickly prepared a report and submitted it to the Economic Planning Agency.

But the response from Japanese officials was lukewarm.

“This seems like an excessive delusion….”

“Let’s assume that there will be a large number of unemployed people. But wouldn’t that actually be beneficial since companies will be cutting costs significantly and making profits?”

“There are plenty of jobs to be created. What’s important is that the competitiveness of our Japanese companies is skyrocketing.”

The Economic Planning Agency ignored the future risk prediction reports submitted by experts.

The report somehow made its way to the Ministry of Finance, but it was the same there.

“There will be massive unemployment and the Japanese economy will face a lost 30 years as a result? Haha, that’s a stretch.”

“How strong is the Japanese economy.”

“If Android Freedom saves on labor costs and companies make profits, where does it all go? In the end, it will trickle down and be distributed evenly throughout Japanese society.”

The Japanese government was optimistic.

More important than the rising unemployment rate was the fact that large corporations were seeing significant improvements in their profits due to reduced labor costs.

“There are so many places to work in Japan. If you look for them, you’ll eventually find a job.”

***

The American robotics industry is in a state of flux these days.

Ha Soo-young had recently placed an additional order for the 400,000 units needed to produce Androids, and then sent out another notice of unlimited purchase.

The cost of parts for one Android Freedom is $1.5 million, and they’re placing another order.

– We plan to produce at least 9 million more units. Please plan your parts production accordingly.

In these tough economic times, there is no customer more grateful than this one who orders large quantities of high-priced parts.

“But what are you going to use all these Androids for?”

“Didn’t you know? All Androids being made now are going to the Japanese manufacturing market.”

“okay?”

“Yeah. If you go to the factories in Japan now, they’re all running on Android Freedom like Seojin Foundry. They say the only human employee is the factory manager.”

“Oh, then the number of unemployed people must have increased significantly.”

“Still, it’s a good thing for the company because it saves on labor costs.”

“But how many years would it take to break even after investing $1.5 million in Android?”

“They say that Android Freedom 1st generation is worth $400,000 worth of annual salary for all workers. Since Suyeong Farm only receives half of that amount in labor costs, it would cost about $200,000, and it would take 7 and a half years to recover the initial investment.”

“But since there are parts to be replaced, I don’t think we’ll be able to recover the principal in 7 and a half years. Shouldn’t we run it for at least 10 years to recover the principal?”

From the perspective of the robot company, the swimming farm was losing so much money that they were sending robot workers to Japan.

Meanwhile, the robot company’s executives were keeping a close eye on the flow of Android Freedom, which was active in the Japanese factory.

“Huh? It’s better than I thought.”

“I was hoping that the semi-permanent metal processing core facility would be built entirely with Android Freedom, but it really was…….”

“At that level, most jobs would be able to do without hiring people, right?”

Aside from the direct design and such, the technical process, whether simple or complex, seemed far superior to Android Freedom.

No, the more complex the engineering, the more Android Freedom shines.

Because Android doesn’t make mistakes.

Also, it doesn’t shake due to fatigue.

“Hmm, should we give Android Freedom a try in our component manufacturing process?

“I don’t think it would be a problem to lay off a few more high-level technicians.”

The robot company’s management made that decision and immediately contacted the swimming farm.

“Would you like to pilot Android Freedom in your factory?”

“Yes, is that possible?”

“If the cost is right, nothing is impossible. You have to pay $700,000 per year for each Android Freedom unit.”

“Seven hundred thousand dollars a year?”

The robot executives were shocked.

No, why do they charge $700,000 in the US when Japan charges an average of $200,000 per year (a rough estimate based on the total rental cost divided by the number)?

“Forget Japan. Japan and the United States are different.”

“…….”

“He is a worker who works as a high-level engineer 365 days a year without resting except for one hour of maintenance time per day.

“Is $700,000 really that expensive?”

In terms of working hours alone, it is equivalent to the work of 5 or 6 highly skilled technicians earning $200,000 per year.

The robotics company’s executives eventually accepted Suyeong Farm’s deal and introduced a few units as a pilot project to use in robot manufacturing.

And I was very satisfied.

“I should have done this a long time ago!”

“Using robots has dramatically increased our production rate. Android Freedom has replaced all manual processes by high-level engineers, and the defect rate has actually dropped to zero.”

“Okay! Change it! Replace it with androids instead of people and change everything!”

The satisfied robot companies placed more and more robot rental orders.

Even though the rental fee was $700,000 per year, it was more profitable to use robots than people.

Suddenly, engineers working at a robotics company lost their jobs overnight.

They worked so hard to create robots, but then they ended up losing their jobs to those robots.

***

American economic luminaries shuddered at what the swimming pool was doing in Japan.

“This is a huge experimental model. The swimming group is currently conducting a large-scale social experiment against Japan.”

“Perhaps they know the end of the simulation and are taking planned steps to achieve it.”

“Japan’s labor market is collapsing rapidly. This is not a soft landing, not even a hard landing. It’s just a crash, a crash!”

Rapid changes in social paradigms cause great shock and damage.

Up until now, many national governments have tried to induce a soft landing in some way, but there has never been a case of a successful soft landing.

Desperate efforts to induce a soft landing meant little more than giving passengers time to prepare for a hard landing and offer up a final prayer.

An emergency meeting was held at the White House.

“Japan will perish?”

“Yes, right now, I hear people among Japanese entrepreneurs saying that if you don’t use a robot rental service, you’re stupid.”

Once my competitors use it, I have no choice but to use it too.

Otherwise, I’ll be the only one suffering the loss.

And once you try it, you’ll be thrilled by its low price and increased yield.

Next time, you will have regrets about why you spent so much money on hiring people.

“There will be mass unemployment and a sharp decline in household consumption spending.

If products don’t sell, businesses won’t be able to survive. Small businesses will start to close one by one.”

“Entrepreneurs who have made money can still make a living even if they close their doors. The problem is that the competitiveness of the economy, and even of Japan as a whole, is declining.”

“In the end, Japan will end up becoming a deformed society where only a small number of ultra-large capitalists will survive and seize everything.”

“We need to collect a large robot tax right now, but the Japanese government is not even implementing the minimum safety measures.”

“The problem is that the signs are just beginning to appear here in the United States.”

Economists who have been advising the industry are warning of the dangers of what is happening in Silicon Valley’s robotics industry.

“In the past month, the number of workers in the robotics industry in the United States has decreased by more than 70%. All of these jobs have been lost to Android Freedom.”

The irony of the robots they created with their own blood, sweat and tears pushing them out and taking their jobs.

Those who devoted their lifelong dreams to robots received no compensation, and only the capitalists and top executives who invested money in the company enjoyed the benefits.

“Other companies are now watching the robotics industry and lining up to introduce Android Freedom into their factories.”

“Can’t we just blindly stop companies from cutting labor costs for profit?”

“Mr. President! If we leave things as they are, America’s job market will collapse in less than half a year! Then America will collapse not from external factors, but from an explosion within!”

The government cannot directly suppress American companies that are drooling over robot rental services. That is a natural instinct of companies.

“We need to introduce a robot tax immediately! So that business owners realize that using robots unconditionally is not profitable!”

After heated discussions, many ideas emerged.

The White House stayed up all night discussing how to solve the problem.

But a single call from Cheongdam-dong made everything seem meaningless.

-The robotics industry has provided rental services to help them produce more parts faster. But they don’t want to do that to other places. I also don’t want the U.S. labor market to collapse.

“As expected, you were well aware of the ripple effects that a robot rental service would bring.”

– I know very well what kind of future awaits us at the end of this crash. I have set a long time horizon of three years, but within a year, visible results will be visible to everyone.

This makes it certain.

Ha Soo-young gave Japan very sweet sugar, meaning that it would make them die from diabetes.

It was a viciously sweet poison that caused death by acute blood sugar attacks in a short period of time, rather than the diabetes that slowly kills you over time.

-Don’t worry, unemployed robotics engineers. I hired them all and they will be working at the Jeju Lab Factory from now on.