{"id":50397,"date":"2016-12-29T18:55:12","date_gmt":"2016-12-30T00:55:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/?p=50397"},"modified":"2016-12-29T18:55:12","modified_gmt":"2016-12-30T00:55:12","slug":"chinas-foxconn-incentives-keeping-automation-at-bay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/?p=50397","title":{"rendered":"China&#8217;s Foxconn incentives: keeping automation at bay.\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reflecting on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/?p=50381\">China&#8217;s massive Foxconn incentives&nbsp;<\/a>it is important to consider the alternative.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>If China did not subsidize Foxconn, and thus the iPhone, Apple would still make them.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>They would be designed for robotic assembly so they&#8217;d look different. They wouldn&#8217;t change as often. They would probably be the same price.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The big effect of China&#8217;s subsidies is to keep automation away. It is an employment intervention.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>An example worth considering.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reflecting on China&#8217;s massive Foxconn incentives&nbsp;it is important to consider the alternative.&nbsp; If China did not subsidize Foxconn, and thus the iPhone, Apple would still make them.&nbsp; They would be designed for robotic assembly so they&#8217;d look different. They wouldn&#8217;t &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/?p=50397\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-t"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50397","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50397"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50397\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50398,"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50397\/revisions\/50398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}