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JSR_FDED ◴[] No.43631980[source]
It’s like people excited about the new datacenter being built in their town, think of all the jobs that will bring they cry. Nobody realizes it takes 6 people to run a datacenter.

Bringing “manufacturing back to the US” is a fool’s errand. The future of manufacturing is automation, not jobs.

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netsharc ◴[] No.43632283[source]
I saw a video today on Instagram (from Tiktok), AI generated of course, where rows and rows of people sit at sewing machines sewing shirts, but instead of the typical Asians one commonly expects to see, they're all overweight American-looking people...
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