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Re:Women who make Samsung semiconductors are striking by theamk on Monday July 15, 2024 @02:32PM (#40970277)
Have you seen "good vs services employment" graphs, like this one? [0]

Number of people producing goods has been shrinking for a longest time, its under 20% now. It'll likely keep shrinking as automation becomes more advanced, and in the future "service" would be much more important.

When I was a kid, I've read some sci-fi stories about societies like those, where most people were working in service industry.

[0] https://www.advisorperspectives.com/dshort/updates/2023/09/0...

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Re:Women who make Samsung semiconductors are striking by hammock on Monday July 15, 2024 @03:05PM (#40970568)
That graph is US only
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Re:Women who make Samsung semiconductors are striking by vivekd on Monday July 15, 2024 @03:47PM (#40970901)
Good point - the graph being US only means it misses offshoring manufacturing jobs to places like China. We can't assume that the loss of manufacturing jobs was solely caused by automation
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Re:Women who make Samsung semiconductors are striking by eru on Monday July 15, 2024 @10:01PM (#40973118)
Why call it 'loss', if it was outsourced? UnAmericans are also human.
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Re:Women who make Samsung semiconductors are striking by trealira on Monday July 15, 2024 @10:11PM (#40973159)
Why do you think the word "loss" implies they think non-Americans aren't human?
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Re:Women who make Samsung semiconductors are striking by justinclift on Tuesday July 16, 2024 @09:02AM (#40976142)
Pretty sure the point was that the jobs are just being moved around, not "lost".
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Re:Women who make Samsung semiconductors are striking by eru on Wednesday July 17, 2024 @01:02AM (#40982723)
I was specifically interested in the contrast to automation alluded to in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40970901

A job can be truly 'lost' if it's replaced by a machine. But it's merely reshuffled, if a foreigner does it.

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Re:Women who make Samsung semiconductors are striking by TOMDM on Monday July 15, 2024 @10:28PM (#40973226)
Where else would you apply this reasoning? If I lose my phone it doesn't stop being a phone...
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Re:Women who make Samsung semiconductors are striking by eru on Wednesday July 17, 2024 @12:52AM (#40982666)
Yes, but it's probably useless for anyone else (because of locking).

And if you break your phone, it stops being a (useful) phone.

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Re:Women who make Samsung semiconductors are striking by TOMDM on Thursday July 18, 2024 @02:17AM (#40992948)
Good thing nobody's talking about breaking or locking jobs then.
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