Comment by aredox
11 days ago
>It's annoying Americans were given only two choices - offshoring is great and let's keep doing it, and, as you say, the opposite, meth-fueled let's bring back manufacturing overnight.
Excuse me, but I am old enough to remember Biden's program such as CHIPS, a slow and steady protection and promotion of home-grown industry.
America had the choice. It chose wrong. Are Americans going to assume the consequences of their choices or are they going to lie to themselves they weren't given the choice? That last option would fit more with the "character" of the America nowadays, the one who voted Trump: make mistakes and blame someone else for it.
I don't think the Rust belt really gives a shit about high tech industry making chips.
I have seen this in my own country when mega corps build highly automated data centres that only employ a few local cleaners and security guards.
Chip making is manufacturing and requires far more engineers, technicians and a wide network of suppliers than data centers or Amazon warehouses.