Don't you mean #universal basic iPhone?

I'm surprised it didn't happen sooner. I imagine it to be something like this.

Björk - All is Full of Love (Official Music Video)

To plagiarise a quote: The products of the future will not be made in the Far East or South America. They will be made in space, or possibly on top of a very tall mountain. In either case, most of the actual manufacturing will be done by robots. And as you go forth today remember always your duty is clear: To build and maintain those robots.

I think there is also significant likelihood of widespread local, distributed manufacturing. But not sure if this will lead to significant employment.

4.5th industrial revolution.

We'd need some hefty asteroid mining before most products are made in space, and even then, they'd have to find most of the materials outside of Earth's gravity well before they'd be profitable.

Nasa are on the case:

NASA Selects Two Missions to Explore the Early Solar System

NASA has selected two missions that have the potential to open new windows on one of the earliest eras in the history of our solar system – a time less than 10 million years after the birth of our sun. The missions, known as Lucy and Psyche, were chosen from five finalists and will proceed to mission formulation.

Seriously, people need to stop whining about this. Do you want a Foxconn job? Would you want your kids to have a Foxconn job?

Senior Assembly Specialist... responsible for putting the "j" and the "f" keys on the keyboard... a hundred and fifty thousand times per day?

The world moves on. People will end up doing better shit. Whining bitches can scrub the tarmac with a toothbrush if they really want to.

The point is not "do you want these crappy jobs," the point is "where are any jobs at all that can sustain a living wage" perhaps followed by "where are the jobs that will earn the income needed to buy the products being made by robots?"

Nobody seems to have figured out the bit between automation and humans being completely redundant.

Maybe they can make tarmac-toothbrushes to feed themselves?

At what point do you run out of customers whose spending power was predicated on being employed in the manufacture of things? There's probably economics papers written about this.

Not only the manufacturing of things, but doing anything in general. White-collar work is largely replaceable by algorithm or very rudimentary A.I. (like the guy in the UK who wrote a program that took care of minor traffic tickets). These are the middle-class-ish jobs that still remain, so what happens when your entire consumer class can't afford the factories' trinkets and gizmos, let alone food and shelter?

There's a quote of Henry Ford about paying his employees enough so that they can buy the cars they build. I think that's a basic idea that has gotten lost. Now it's "Pay the employees as little as possible. There are enough other people who have better paying jobs to buy my products and services." That can only work up to a point before the system collapses. We are rapidly approaching that point, if in fact we have not already passed it.

Sadly, I think so many will assume other companies will pick up the slack that it will become a problem before a solution is found.

After installing dozens of Lexmark MX410 printers, I feel as though I have formed a strange sort of bond with the guy (it's probably a guy) in the Far East who's job is to stick strips of sticky-tape across all of the flaps and drawers, so they don't come open in transit. And there are fucking loads of them to un-stick. I hate him for wasting so much of my time, over and over again. But I also feel close to him, to his work and in sympathy for a world that has brought him to this. His childhood hopes and dreams reduced to spending every day sticking the same pieces of tape onto the same plastic, even as I curse him as I unstick them and roll them all up into a ball, with the plastic that secures the toner drum.

Most Foxconn manufacturing jobs are in China. With a growing population and economy, and insufficient opportunity for over a billion ordinary Chinese to make a living in that economy, yes, people do want Foxconn jobs and they probably want their kids to have them too.