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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 | 2 comments | 09 Apr 25 12:58 UTC | HN request time: 0.425s | 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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jacknews ◴[09 Apr 25 14:13 UTC] No.43632390[source]▶
i don't understand the obsession with jobs anyway

people don't want a job, they want money and purpose

most jobs barely deliver either

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palmotea ◴[09 Apr 25 15:33 UTC] No.43633279[source]▶
> i don't understand the obsession with jobs anyway

> people don't want a job, they want money and purpose

And society will not give them any of that without a job.

There, now you should understand "the obsession with jobs."

> most jobs barely deliver either

And no job delivers even less.

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1. weregiraffe ◴[09 Apr 25 16:34 UTC] No.43634046[source]▶
>And society will not give them any of that without a job.

Unless you are an aristocrat. Them your "job" was to fleece the peasants, and somehow "society" accepted this for thousands of years.

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2. themaninthedark ◴[10 Apr 25 16:28 UTC] No.43645524[source]▶
Managers, still accepted job but now anyone an join.