Women who make Samsung semiconductors are striking

Leave it to HN to rationalize job-related disfigurement.

> Samsung’s 12-inch line utilizes an overhead hoist transport (OHT) system, an automated transport network that operates along tracks installed on the ceiling, to move bundles of 25 wafers called “lots.” On the 8-inch line, however, this transportation is done manually. There is much more market demand for 12-inch wafers, so Samsung has modernized and automated many processes. The 8-inch line, however, is outdated.

While abuse of assembly line workers has always happened, as factories become increasingly automated,

1. Some workers lose their jobs to automation.

2. The remaining ones have a weaker negotiation power, as their jobs are on the way out anyway. So companies have even more incentive to abuse them.

and what's exactly the purpose of that philosophical angle?