Robots for making shoes and clothing could eliminate 9 million jobs in Southeast Asia, pushing whole regions into poverty.

Companies first moved these jobs from the US and Europe to poor countries where they could pay workers very little, and now will eliminate the jobs entirely.

In the past, advancing technology created new jobs while eliminating other jobs. The net result was to pay workers more. No longer: technology is eliminating so many jobs that there cannot be a real replacement.

A socialist world government could solve the problem by reducing working hours so that more people would be employed, and by taxing the rich people that own the robot factories. However, today's plutocratist governments will serve those owners instead of the unemployed poor.