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Unlike Americans, the Japanese are not worried about robots taking their jobs. On the contrary, they seem to have a love affair with robots. You see robots at the entrance of many department stores an

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Andres Oppenheimer, a syndicated columnist and anchor of the TV Show "Oppenheimer Presenta." (Miami Herald)

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It's because we know we can make the robots do as we want. Female happy and cute robots who can meet and greet. Large male robots who work. Other robots to make sure that all the robots don't get any ideas. Oh, and the older,slower, and more defunct the robot gets, the more power and responsibility it should be given.

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"It's because we know we can make the robots do as we want."

Except deal with a melting down nuclear power plant. You needed to call in American and French robots for that. Asimo can't cut it in the real world

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Hehe. Often difficult to tell the difference between robots and the real thing.

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It's probably because industrial robots mostly displaced manufacturing workers here long before the shift in America. You can bet the Japanese workers displaced then weren't happy. The major displacement that will take place now in the services industry hasn't really gotten into full gear yet

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Likely because there's not much difference between a "salary-man" and a robot, and since companies can abuse their labor force but Robots are so expensive, the former won't be replaced in any major capacity any time soon. Add to that the fact that the government has failed time and again to effectively address the decline in population and the fact that almost 40% of the workforce is projected to be retired by 2050 or whatever, and robots are the favourite hypothetical means of keeping the current social programs in place -- certainly making immigration easier isn't an option.

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Robots are the way to go. They do not need lunch breaks, nor have to commute.

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Robots should be designed to be taxed and pay regularly into funds for healthcare and geratric nursing.

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