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Re:Chip shortage: Toyota to cut global production by 40% by unethical_ban on Thursday August 19, 2021 @11:28AM (#28235091)
Indeed, there seems to be a difference worth noting between "industries that currently employ a large number of the population with little transfer of utility to other industry" and "objectively basic needs for a society".

I figure there are also different definitions of strategic depending on the size and capability of an economy. The US is large and geographically fortunate enough that it theoretically "could" be almost entirely self-sustaining if it set its mind to it. Fuel, semiconductors, transport, lumber, food, guns.

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Re:Chip shortage: Toyota to cut global production by 40% by guerrilla on Thursday August 19, 2021 @11:37AM (#28235210)
> Indeed, there seems to be a difference worth noting between "industries that currently employ a large number of the population with little transfer of utility to other industry" and "objectively basic needs for a society".

Did you consider that it's because people need an income to survive? Employment is objectively a basic need for anyone who doesn't own sufficient capital being that they have nothing else to sell but their labor.

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Re:Chip shortage: Toyota to cut global production by 40% by unethical_ban on Thursday August 19, 2021 @11:56AM (#28235452)
I didn't say that keeping people employed was a bad thing. I was making a distinction in definition, not in value.
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