Re: (ReacTor) Five Unconventional SFF Road Trips

On 4/4/2025 12:05 PM, Scott Lurndal wrote:

Paul S Person <psperson@old.netcom.invalid> writes:

On Thu, 3 Apr 2025 17:29:31 -0400 (EDT), kludge@panix.com (Scott
Dorsey) wrote:
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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=20

will ever come back because they don't exist any longer in any country.

>
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.

 A significant fraction of that money is profit which benefits
a few shareholders for the construction conglomerate,
not the construction workers, electricians, et alia.
 

That's the problem. The wealth created will not be spread around.
As it is today, a vastly disproportionate fraction will go to
a very small number of people.
I'd love to see a Phillip Jose Farmer's 'Purple Wage', the earliest
example of UBI I recall from fiction, but barring politicians
suddenly becoming immune to being bought off by unlimited
contributions from corporations or billionaires, it just ain't
going to happen.
pt