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How much do you think it costs to make a pair of Nike shoes in Asia?

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689 points taubek | 3 comments | 09 Apr 25 12:58 UTC | HN request time: 0.496s | source
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JSR_FDED ◴[09 Apr 25 13:42 UTC] 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 ◴[09 Apr 25 14:04 UTC] 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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tekla ◴[09 Apr 25 14:06 UTC] No.43632301[source]▶
Apparently China propaganda making fun of the US.
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basisword ◴[09 Apr 25 14:23 UTC] No.43632497[source]▶
I'd say this is more satire than propaganda.
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1. some_random ◴[09 Apr 25 14:32 UTC] No.43632614[source]▶
Political satire usually is propaganda.
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2. hdjjhhvvhga ◴[09 Apr 25 14:40 UTC] No.43632680[source]▶
Not always and I'm not sure if usually, but in this particular case it's both.
3. keybored ◴[09 Apr 25 16:21 UTC] No.43633840[source]▶
Yeah. And people need to stop thinking that things that they can label as funny or whatever else is not propaganda. Everything with an agenda is propaganda.

“Wholesome Biden & Obama memes” are probably propaganda. And videos about “fat Americans” being marched into factories sounds like something the Chinese could make.