FabledAepitaph

@FabledAepitaph@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do people really think setting up domestic manufacturing in the USA is easy?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Of course it works out if you throw any numbers in that you want. Minimum hourly wage in the US is 7.25-ish in Alabama and the rest of the decrepit South, to 16-ish in California. I googled minimum wage in China and its roughly 3.40-ish at its highest. At the worst, China is half as expensive, and I wouldn’t be surprised if the disparity between the actual industrial areas of China and Califonia/Colorado for example might be 8x.

  Whats happening here is that the poorly educated South is wanting me to subsidize their lack of marketable job skills by making me pay extra for American goods instead of Chinese goods.

  And don’t forget that the extra money these Americans earn will be partially consumed by the extra cost of living anyways. Not to mention the years or decades of investment it will take to get factories set here anyways, all for low-skill, physically demanding, and mentally unengaging employment.

  Manufacturing should be automated anyways because nobody should have to sit at a conveyor belt all day and toil their lives away assembling dumb trinkets.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do people really think setting up domestic manufacturing in the USA is easy?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  But they’re not going to increase wages to account for us having to spend 55 dollars on something that used to cost 5. So the end result is just that people end up with less overall. I’m cool with limiting consumerism, but this isn’t the way to do it imo. And it’s not going to make us “richer” as a nation.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do people really think setting up domestic manufacturing in the USA is easy?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  And we haven’t even addressed the whole reason manufacturing left in the first place. It’s so much cheaper to do it overseas, even accounting for shipping. It will cost America much more to produce items internally–and who is going to buy these extra-expensive items? America is a service economy and most people are working at Walmart or McDonald’s. These people can barely afford the cheap Chinese version, much less the expensive American version.

  So I guess they’re hoping wages will increase more than the extra expensive incurred by making our own items? Not going to happen, not in a million years.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mexican President Threatens to Sue Google Over 'Gulf of America' Label on Maps.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You’re missing the entire point. What Trump did was petty af. Petty shit deserves to get smacked down from every possible angle. If more people stood up on principle like my new Mexican crush here, maybe they’d think twice before issuing their bullshit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Best Buy Store⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If I saw this in the wall of a place I wanted to shop at, I’d probably just leave

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Teslas turn toxic as sales crash in Europe and the UK | EV sales in the region are growing, but not for Tesla⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This is the way. I wish more people would accept what is quite literally only minor inconvenience in the name of starving these insane companies. We honestly have it so good in most of modern society, and some things are just totally optional imo.

  Thanks

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mexico asks Google to reject U.S. renaming of the Gulf of Mexico.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It will always be the Gulf of Mexico to me

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple CEO Tim Cook Donating $1 Million to Trump's Inaugural Fund⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Absolutely disgusting

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it normal to feel tired of technological progress?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  At some point, there was this shift where the technology was no longer being designed to benefit the user, but to benefit the creator. The problem is that the creators are now trillion-dollar multi-national organizations who also lobby against my wellbeing and safety in areas rulemaking and regulation. So now I am fine foregoing the “technology” whenever I can.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tough Shit⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Great

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨7 years ago there were no billionaires worth more than $100 billion - today there are 18!⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This is a list of people who’s creations I’d like to avoid, if at all possible.

  It’s obvious for several people on this list, but how do I boycott someone like the Oracle guy? As a non-tech guy, it just seems impossible. I don’t even recognize several of these people, tbh.