Monthly Archives: March 2019

Should You Worry about Factory Fires?

You have enough to worry about in a factory without thinking about fire, right? We like fires in nice controlled conditions like the one pictured here, not in uncontrolled conditions in our workplaces. Last week, a factory fire in Taiwan claimed 6 lives and another in Bangladesh killed 81. A few years ago in Arkansas,… Read more »

Robot Memory

Robot workers offer quite a few advantages. For example, they work without breaks or holidays. They can be bought once rather than paid for over and over again. Entrepreneur Andrew Yang, in his book The War on Normal People, suggests another advantage: they don’t hold grudges. Lay off a dozen workers and replace them with… Read more »