This mess is going to get a lot worse before it gets better.

  • notaviking@lemmy.world
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    8 hours ago

    I love how we have to protect Taiwan against Chinese annexation because the World relies on their chips, but when extremely large corporations basically take away the World’s supply of chips it is supposed to be fine.

    At least with the Crypto and now the AI craze we are at least getting used to shortages from the eventual war of the chips

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      6 hours ago

      How about instead of building concentration camps, we build chip factories, and employ all the people we’re abusing? Then they can spend their earnings, and pay taxes, and stimulate the economy.

      Or we can lock them up, create a chip shortage, destroy otherwise viable companies, and keep our economy limping along, satisfied with the false metric of the Stock Market as a score.

      • Assassassin@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        6 hours ago

        Yeah, I wouldn’t give the current admin any ideas. It’d be less of a “employ all the people” and more of a “work will set you free” type of arrangement.