What you see above is a video of a robot factory released by South Korea's Samsung Group last month. There is no manual link and the whole process is robot production.

The person in charge joked that running such a factory only requires one person and a dog. The dog is there to stop people from touching the switches, and the person is in charge of feeding the dog.

Samsung released this video with two main intentions: first, to show its strong technical strength to the outside world; second, to warn Indian workers that they are not indispensable.

At present, the conflict between South Korea's Samsung and Indian workers has reached a point of irreconcilability. In just three months, Indian workers have gone on strike twice, with the strikes lasting for over two months. This has led to the factory being unable to operate normally, resulting in daily losses of nearly $13.85 million.

The conflict between the two sides started three months ago. 1,500 Indian workers, organized by the labor union, announced a general strike and made three demands to the South Korean side:

1. The salary will be doubled, from the current US$200 to US$400;

2. Implement a 35-hour work system, in line with developed European countries;

3. After a worker resigns, he can designate an heir to take his place;

When Samsung management saw these requirements, they gasped, it was unheard of!

Then they refuted: "The first is a salary increase, which can be negotiated, but it is impossible to double it; the second is the implementation of the European work system. If it is really realized, why doesn't Samsung just build factories in Europe? Third, the positions are hereditary. Is this preparing to introduce a caste system in Samsung? It's ridiculous!"

The two sides remained in a stalemate for more than 30 days, refusing to give in to each other. In the end, Samsung lost 1 billion U.S. dollars and could no longer stand it, so it asked the Indian government to intervene.

Under the government's mediation, the two parties reached a temporary resumption agreement. Samsung agreed to immediately raise wages by 20% and discuss the remaining demands later.

During the subsequent negotiations, Samsung resorted to the "stalling tactic" and held several rounds of talks with the labor union. Apart from a plan to raise salaries by 80% over the next ten years, Samsung refused to discuss other issues. However, the labor union insisted that the issue of job heredity must be resolved.

The South Korean representative said: There is no such thing as "job inheritance" in the modern enterprise system.

The Indian representative cited the example of Islam and said, "Muslims around the world are equal brothers, except in India. Muslims in India are divided by caste, because only in this way can it conform to our traditional customs."

However, it should be noted that this division of religious groups by caste is inconsistent with religious teachings and universal values ​​such as equality and justice. The caste system is a backward and discriminatory social system.

The South Korean side was left speechless by this retort. Anyway, they refused to agree to the hereditary job system.

The labor union gradually lost patience, so several activists started to stir things up, inciting workers to launch a new round of strikes.

After Samsung discovered this, it immediately fired the three troublemakers. It originally thought that this would calm the situation. However, to its surprise, the opposite happened. Less than two months after 500 workers returned to work, they announced another strike last week!

In South Korea, even the president shows Samsung a certain degree of courtesy. Do a few hundred Indian workers really think they can make a big deal? Lee Jae-yong issued an ultimatum: either resume work immediately, or the factory will be closed and everyone will be out of a job!

Want to blackmail Samsung? No way! The South Koreans are extremely tough this time because they've come to realize that making concessions to the Indians won't lead to mutual understanding; instead, it only encourages them to be more insatiable.

If we don't put an end to this strike, they'll make trouble every day in the future, until "Samsung India" becomes "Brahmin Samsung".

Seeing that Samsung was about to pull out, the Indian government got anxious. It asked Samsung to stay calm and then patted its chest to guarantee that it would talk to the Indian workers and ensure that everyone would come back to work obediently.

How to talk?

Talk with a whip!

Poverty breeds treachery, wealth breeds conscience. Violence is the only language these people understand. When it comes to the management of Indian workers, the local government in India is obviously the most experienced. Negotiations will not work, and some means must be used.

The union also very wisely announced that it would resume work within 3 to 5 days.

On the other side, Samsung, which has gained wisdom after learning a lesson, decided to introduce robot factories in an effort to completely replace Indian workers within 10 years and solve the strike problem once and for all. Moreover, Samsung’s official statement is very high-sounding, saying that the introduction of robots will help India develop the most advanced manufacturing industry and catch up with world standards.

Aren’t you Indians clamoring to develop advanced manufacturing every day? Don’t want to be an assembly factory? No problem, the most advanced one is here! There is nothing more advanced than a robot factory, right? 100% made in India.

In the future, Samsung will neither need to hire local workers nor worry about technology transfer in India. It will only need to sell the goods produced by the robot factory to Indians.

Finally, let's add some data on foreign investment in India. From 2014 to 2023, 2,783 foreign companies around the world have closed their Indian operations, including Ford Motor, General Motors, Royal Bank of Scotland, Citibank and other well-known European and American companies.

Graveyard for foreign investment, a global killer.