We Are What We Manufacture

I'm intrigued, glad it's in audio book for my commutes.

I can not wait for Foxconn to come to Wisconsin to enrich all of the unemployed in Southeastern Wisconsin.

Apparently an awesome book and an awesome review, but a question to both author and reviewer: the history of manufacture and capitalism is almost invariably a history of a lack of conscience, a history of exploitation, as it must be, given the facts. But facts do not interpret themselves and history is, by definition, interpretation. How is it possible to interpret the facts of capitalist production and consumption by workers without a history of conscience? Obligation and duty are everywhere. They keep the factories producing and people consuming. Obligation and duty for what? To compete? For what? With whom? Why are workers obligated? What are their duties? To compete with China? To survive in a hostile world, where other nations are trying to out-consume us? Do the facts of manufacture only allow a history of competition? Do workers go to work every day only to subsist? Maybe the next book, huh?

What happens when robots take over most of the factory jobs?