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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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xienze ◴[] No.43632300[source]
I think you're missing that the bigger value is having the manufacturing on your home soil instead of depending on being in the good graces of China.
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kjkjadksj ◴[] No.43633981[source]
You always depend on someones good graces. What difference does it make if they are an american you are dependent on or a chinese person? Still a human at the end of the day. Its the political leaders that want you to say that an apple and an apple are different species. It doesn’t reflect the reality that we are all equivocal humans on earth. The sooner we get out of our nation state well of stability as a species, the sooner we advance technologically to the next level as a species.
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1. beeflet ◴[] No.43642280[source]
It's not the choice of an american or chinese person but an american or chinese economy you're dependent on. An american or chinese country, an american or chinese government. The difference is that the chinese support eugenics, are throwing people in ethnic reeduction camps, operate an authoritarian system with extensive mass surveillance, and have plans to conquer taiwan (and the world). People are not equal because cultures are not equal. You might as well be dependent on the USSR or Nazi Germany, after all they're just people!

The sooner we get out of our nation state well of stability as a species? I don't know what dopey star trek fantasy land you are living in, but we are sooner going to destroy the world than join hands and all sing kumbaya. Especially if we allow some autocratic regimes to come to power.