Re: (ReacTor) Five Unconventional SFF Road Trips

On 4/4/2025 8:31 AM, Paul S Person wrote:

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

Lynn McGuire  <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> wrote:

>
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.

 <snippo notes on how the robots have /already/ taken over>
 

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.

 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.
 

One of the reasons the US is having an affordable housing shortage is a shortage of construction workers to build the housing.  I suspect there isn't a complete overlap in the workforce building factories vs. housing but I'm pretty sure there is at least some.
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