Re: (ReacTor) Five Unconventional SFF Road Trips

On Thu, 3 Apr 2025 17:29:31 -0400 (EDT), kludge@panix.com (Scott
Dorsey) wrote:
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Lynn McGuire  <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> wrote:

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Apple just announced that they are going to move all of their computer
plants to the USA and spend $500 billion here over the next four years.
I call that a win.  There are many more companies moving their
manufacturing back to the USA.  I call that a win.  Those will be lots
of high paying jobs.

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<snippo notes on how the robots have /already/ taken over>
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So... I am glad to see Apple bringing their plants back to the US, and I am
sure they will hire some people who will make good money, but I am under no
illusion that the kind of manufacturing jobs that we had in the seventies
will ever come back because they don't exist any longer in any country.

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If they build the plants from stock, then they will also be pumping
money into the local economy's construction segment. Which should help
a lot, at least for a few years.
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This is what will eventually produce nations were almost nobody works,
but everybody gets an income if only to keep the economy moving.