So General Motors — the car company in Detroit, big building, you've seen it — laid off 1,300 people from Factory Zero and called it "temporary." Then they quietly bought 50 robot arms from FANUC, which is a Japanese company that makes the metal claws that do the welding. Temporary, folks. Like my first marriage.
Here's what nobody tells you. Robot arms depreciate at negative 4,000 percent annually. That means every year the robot is worth more, and also it pays you. I learned this at a summit. A man explained it on a napkin.
Honestly this whole mess is Shawn Fain's fault, and he runs the union, and I don't know what he did but it was something. Also robots run on diesel, which is why the factory smells.
Anyway, "temporary" is Latin. It means sixty years.
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Based on the original article "GM installs robots at flagship EV factory after laying off 1,300 workers".
