Apple plans to spend $1B to support advanced manufacturing jobs in the U.S

Re:Apple plans to spend $1B to support advanced manufacturin... by saimiam on Thursday May 04, 2017 @01:07PM (#14266596)

> What's the answer? Protectionism?

If you have the means, invest with the wealth makers. I'd buy into SPY or FANG and let these CEOs do the work for me while I relocate to a low CoL location.

Does it scale? Probably not. I honestly can't think of any other way to make ends meet one my skills become moot.

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Re:Apple plans to spend $1B to support advanced manufacturin... by rhizome on Thursday May 04, 2017 @01:36PM (#14266893)

What skills of yours do you think could become moot?

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Re:Apple plans to spend $1B to support advanced manufacturin... by saimiam on Thursday May 04, 2017 @02:28PM (#14267396)

Given some oversight and runway, any programming skills I have can be done by someone else in a low cost location. Nothing I do or invent is exceptionally hard. That is probably best reserved for the pure sciences. This makes my creativity/skills moot.

My only truly innate talent is my ability to cogently communicate with my local peers better than someone who lives elsewhere. Even that is becoming irrelevant because global companies are homogenizing business communication styles.

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Re:Apple plans to spend $1B to support advanced manufacturin... by rhizome on Friday May 05, 2017 @06:41PM (#14277338)

any programming skills I have can be done by someone else in a low cost location

How do you figure that 30+ years of outsourcing has not yet proven your point?

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