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Re:Australia Mourns the End of Its Car Manufacturing Industry by sitharus on Friday October 20, 2017 @10:38PM (#15520394)
The only reason I have a Toyota now is the dealer was the only one who'd actually talk to me, so she got the sale. The other dealers would only show me the cheapest cars on the lot and wander off.

New Zealand's domestic car industry (where they simply connected the imported bits together) died in the late 80s when tariffs were removed and we've been better off for it.

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Re:Australia Mourns the End of Its Car Manufacturing Industry by rangibaby on Saturday October 21, 2017 @06:39AM (#15521400)
Who’s we? Look at all the dysfunction (eg shooting of Steven Wallace) that goes on in communities that were left to rot by the transition to a market economy. It makes me wonder if it was worth it.
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Re:Australia Mourns the End of Its Car Manufacturing Industry by Spooky23 on Saturday October 21, 2017 @11:09AM (#15522072)
“We” = the people who will be crying in their beer in a decade when “we” are too old to be employable and bankrupt after the end of life of 1988-2008 systems and datacenters drops the bottom out of the IT labor market.

Billions are being invested in replacing that stuff today, and every one of those projects cuts staffing needs 90%.

The plumbers will be there laughing at office wankers who thought they had a sweet gig.

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