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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 | 1 comments | 09 Apr 25 12:58 UTC | HN request time: 0s | 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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explodes ◴[09 Apr 25 14:47 UTC] No.43632757[source]▶
Human society has been optimizing for the wrong thing since 20,000BC.

To that end, the future I want doesn't focus so much on money, but on needs. Letting a market dictate "needs" is clearly not working for the betterment of humanity a whole. While it helps with progress, I believe there is an upper limit when human behavior is brought into the equation.

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1. bpt3 ◴[09 Apr 25 19:29 UTC] No.43636657[source]▶
Market economies have gotten us to the point where true needs are made available to all in the developed world.

That's because money lets people efficiently deploy resources where they feel it is needed.

What makes you say it's "clearly not working", other than comparing developed nations to a non-existent utopia?