Re:Apple Silicon: The Passing of Wintel
by mjburgess on Tuesday July 14, 2020 @04:09AM
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> forcing an entire generation (or two) work
Err... no. 996 is a recent culture of work in Chinese IT.
The reason subsitance-living agricultural workers moved to cities and factories is the same reason they have always done so in history: farming is dangerous, risky toil.
A wage is highly stabilising, and highly attractive. You do not need to "force" people from farms into factories.
> Why would a profit-driven corporation spend money to bring the supply chain back to the US when there is no economic reason to do so?
The US can engage in the same state-funded programme of infrastructure investment, skills subsidy, and massive sector-targeted tax cuts. That it chooses not to is the explanation of why the US isn't competing successfully. NOT "996".
Its just scape-goating to blame "the despicable Chinese!" when at the same time you're doing nothing to compete with them.
Err... no. 996 is a recent culture of work in Chinese IT.
The reason subsitance-living agricultural workers moved to cities and factories is the same reason they have always done so in history: farming is dangerous, risky toil.
A wage is highly stabilising, and highly attractive. You do not need to "force" people from farms into factories.
> Why would a profit-driven corporation spend money to bring the supply chain back to the US when there is no economic reason to do so?
The US can engage in the same state-funded programme of infrastructure investment, skills subsidy, and massive sector-targeted tax cuts. That it chooses not to is the explanation of why the US isn't competing successfully. NOT "996".
Its just scape-goating to blame "the despicable Chinese!" when at the same time you're doing nothing to compete with them.