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Re:‘Better Yield on 5nm Than 7nm’: TSMC Update on Defect Rat... by xster on Tuesday August 25, 2020 @02:10PM (#24274215)
> Really? In the 1970's in the US it was possible to own a house and support a family of 4 on a single income in the manufacturing sector. It was also possible to work your way through college and exit with a degree and no debt, in a job market which made that worth it.m

This is more of a feature of the transition from a Bretton Woods/Treasury/politics-based monetary policy to neoliberal/central bank/finance-based one no? At 10% inflation, the creditors just ate most of your mortgage debt regardless of whether you worked in manufacturing or not.

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Re:‘Better Yield on 5nm Than 7nm’: TSMC Update on Defect Rat... by skohan on Tuesday August 25, 2020 @02:18PM (#24274298)
Probably it was a combination of factors, but I imagine the transition to a service-based economy and the outsourcing of entire sectors of jobs relying on large pools of organized labor didn't help the situation
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