Path: ...!news.mixmin.net!weretis.net!feeder8.news.weretis.net!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: ted@loft.tnolan.com (Ted Nolan ) Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written Subject: Re: (ReacTor) Five Unconventional SFF Road Trips Date: 4 Apr 2025 15:33:19 GMT Organization: loft Lines: 31 Message-ID: References: X-Trace: individual.net u+tTiteRKiT0MS45NF0yagBTFNitZWcQeNVUipmA0Yc++0dI6T X-Orig-Path: not-for-mail Cancel-Lock: sha1:uXSYg2U0zpjdkmM1NMu5qY0QLhM= sha256:sZc1fGGc8GMY3fvrGzEYbtrKY3rvHzn2hiNqCVwxIbI= X-Newsreader: trn 4.0-test76 (Apr 2, 2001) Bytes: 2216 In article , Paul S Person wrote: >On Thu, 3 Apr 2025 17:29:31 -0400 (EDT), kludge@panix.com (Scott >Dorsey) wrote: > >>Lynn McGuire wrote: >>> >>>Apple just announced that they are going to move all of their computer >>>plants to the USA and spend $500 billion here over the next four years. >>>I call that a win. There are many more companies moving their >>>manufacturing back to the USA. I call that a win. Those will be lots >>>of high paying jobs. > > > >>So... I am glad to see Apple bringing their plants back to the US, and I am >>sure they will hire some people who will make good money, but I am under no >>illusion that the kind of manufacturing jobs that we had in the seventies >>will ever come back because they don't exist any longer in any country. > >If they build the plants from stock, then they will also be pumping >money into the local economy's construction segment. Which should help >a lot, at least for a few years. > >This is what will eventually produce nations were almost nobody works, >but everybody gets an income if only to keep the economy moving. Paging Fred Pohl! Fred Pohl to the white courtesy phone! -- columbiaclosings.com What's not in Columbia anymore..