Question

Many workers felt less secure in the 1990s because
A. many companies were declaring bankruptcy.
B. many companies were downsizing.
C. strikes by unions were becoming common.
D. robots were making workplaces unsafe.

Answer 1

well obviously D = the exact opposite. which should give you the answer, because what happens when something or someone becomes useless compared to something else?

Answer 2

Workers felt less secure in the 90s because companies were downsizing (B) which is fancy way of saying "they fired people to cut costs".

Robots didn't contribute as much to this as the idea of cheap labor did. It was more cost effective to pay pennies for labor than invest in equipment that cost millions of dollars. It's still something that happens today as more jobs move to countries with cheap labor, such as Mexico, China, or Vietnam. It's all about the money, yo!

Answer 3

Dont give the answers boy. lml. They must learn.

Answer 4

It's an answer with an explanation which is a lot better than most of the answers I've seen that simply state it.

Answer 5

And, cheap labor died down during the 90's, with the introduction of technologically advanced automated robots and pellet, why pay workers at allwhen the cheapest labor is the free one?

Answer 6

they replaced my S#%t with pellet. wow

Answer 7

Cheap labor certainly didn't die down after the 90s, nor did downsizing. We're still living with the consequences of globalization as an easy out for companies to save cash. It's one of the reasons manufacturing in this country has been almost demolished in the last decade. The recent recession had also resulted in a massive number of companies shedding workers because of the fiscal meltdown -- downsizing in order to save money after their investments went belly up.

Robots automate labor and they also cost millions of dollars. You can't just pick one up off the shelf at Radio Shack and expect it to build an iPhone. It's one of the reasons why Apple has shifted most of its production overseas -- cheap labor. Why spend millions to build your own factory when you can build or hire one for half the cost staffed with low-paid workers elsewhere?

Many of our smartphones. clothes, and shoes are all made by people being paid less in a week than what someone that flips burgers at McDonalds here in the United States makes in a day.

Answer 8

OH OKAY. 76 smartscore! lmao

Answer 9

But iI am talking on an industrial level, not a commercial one. You think they would rather have humans working in the meat packing plants or auto-mobile factories over a robot that has less opportunity costs and more productivity?

Answer 10

And of course there not cheap, its all about opportunity costs and long term investments.