Regretably, unless some sort of worldwide ethical commerce treaty is established in the near future, a "foxconnified" workforce will be a basic requirement in order to mass produce anything, anwywhere in the world.
I didn't see any entitlement in the grandparent post, only an expression of hope :)
We ARE seeing lifechanging robots (example: Google self driving cars, there are less visible ones, but even my hospital here in Uruguay has one for surgeries). In my visit to BMW's factories, I was amazed by their robots.
They just haven't reached the masses yet, there isn't a Microsoft of robots ("one robot in every house").
Note: Microsoft's original vision "a computer on every desk and in every home, running Microsoft software"
I have no doubt that this near-slavery condition will always exist, but that doesn't make it right.
Confederates before the US Civil War argued in favor of slavery, and some of the arguments weren't far off from that thinking. http://www.ushistory.org/us/27f.asp
Yeah, after the Reconstruction there was a mass defection of Southern Democrats or "Dixiecrats" (aka unabashedly racist politicians, many of whom were Klan members) from the Democratic to the Republican party.
