Amenities. Not having to drive everywhere. Good internet. Rural areas are more conservative in general (I'm talking about the cultural sense, not economic) so that can be stifling for a lot of people.
this is not as bad as it sounds, people can discover many other sources (also lower cost) of protein. perhaps this leads to decreased meat consumption, not at all a bad thing.
If this was a simple change of preferences due to all the vegan/vegetarian talking points, I could agree with your premise. The thing I wonder about C19 is that what kinds of agricultural processes involve humans ensuring that beans/corn/greens/starches get from the fields into produce aisles and cans? The same reasoning on shutting down production for infection risk applies there as well.
Meat has the shortest shelf life of foods, so any impact on the food supply chain will be felt there first.
US Agriculture as a whole employs 22 million people. Of that, meet production is about 500,000. Fruits, vegetables, and grains take an order of magnitude more hands to make it to the table, so to speak.
1) it doesn’t make a clear logical case for why manufacturing isn’t done by Apple (or many other companies) in the US, right now
2) it doesn’t give reasoning about why sotuation is unlikely to change, or if it does change, how it will not look anything like industrial-era factory labor manufacturing
3) it doesn’t explain that these realities have nothing to do with Apple, except that Apple finds these economic realities faster than other companies
4) it ends completey abruptly without drawing any real conclusion or thesis or adding any insight (based on solid reasoning)
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The fact that Jean Louis Gassed can’t use a screwdriver has nothing to do with anything...
Manufacturing of complex computer systems is complex, therefore requires many different competencies, said competencies must communicate to resolve challenges, and that in and of itself is hard. This hardness requires (literally) an ecosystem of skilled workers to address. Could Apple (or any other company) build such an ecosystem? Yes, if they did it from scratch early on, when the cost to build it was low because the ecosystem was relatively simple. But now, its not a simple ecosystem, and it would be painfully expensive to replicate.
It should be noted that there is probably a strong difference in the complexity (therefore difficulty) of manufacturing high tech products versus other consumer products like cars/trucks, general electronics. That difference is the velocity/pace of new features going to market, required to drive sales. Tech products literally compete on feature sets. Sales of cars and toasters and espresso makers can depend on many factors and so they are not constantly racing to update the product every 6-12 months. I could be wrong here, but I believe the conclusion that tech manufacturing is like all other kinds of manufacturing is baseless. And in fact, the fact that so much has moved to China is the strongest evidence that it can’t simply exist anywhere.
The article also doesn't mention that the Mac Pro line has been manufactured in Texas since 2013 (Admittedly a niche product compared to Apple's overall scale.)
Apple is also investing $390m in a chip plant in Texas to supply some of their custom silicon, and there are several suppliers of iPhone components in the area.
This article is anti-trump pro-globalist propaganda. The lack of real arguements demonstrates that. This is meant to demoralize Americans and make them feel helpless and dependent on a global free trade regime that has decimated the working class and could be abolished easily by restoring the tariffs that existed through the 1970's.
Maybe not the best examples, since the companies don’t exist anymore, but weren’t NeXT and Sun Micros built in the bay area in the early days? I think Sun hung on to the newark facilities nearly to their shuttering. Were they a mess too?
They don't exist because China has protectionist policies that give them an advantage and the US elites abolished most of its tarrifs in the 80's and 90's. they could easily come back but the new york times doesn't want them to, and they don't want you to think it's even a possibility.
It was like someone massaged my thoughts or rinsed off my brain. Maybe it is more like a reboot. In any case, my brain felt good. So many thoughts that were negative just didn't have the same sort of affect on everything else. My worries had a different sort of framing on them. I could look at some of these things and make a reasonable decision about them. Some things, sure, I need to work on - but I was a bit more motivated to actually do so. Other things, I was able to make a decision not to be bothered by them. Since I had some time without so much mental stress, it wasn't so difficult to teach myself that those things were a bit ridiculous. I had a better sense of personal well-being and self-love that has stuck around.
I imagine doing this with an actual therapist would be even more helpful. I completely understand why it seems like a miracle for mental health in drug trials.
I've done other sorts of drugs in my life - lsd, for example. While they shaped some of my perception and thoughts about the world and life, nothing was quite like this. I couldn't describe myself as unhappy before, but now I'm really content with life.
I should now mention that I would urge folks to have caution. I can understand how folks would get addicted to it. And there is a risk of simply doing it too often and actually having the opposite effect. This is something to do occasionally, not every weekend or even once a month. The most profound change was the first time: I've done it since then, and it while (for me) it reinforces the things I learned the first time and still feel mentally refreshed the next day, it simply isn't as large of a change.
Another small sidenote: I've done it with my spouse. It also strengthened our relationship as well simply because we basically sat and talked positively for hours.
One time when I was younger, I babysat for a family. They said it was fine to watch TV while their kids slept. The reception was fuzzy and static-y but I still watched it. After a few hours, I got used to the fuzz and bad reception.
Then they came home, saw me watching and said, "oh you've got to turn off the VCR." They did that and the picture became impossibly crystal clear. I was floored by what I had been missing and how I had convinced myself that things before were "fine."
Had pretty much the same experience the first few weeks after taking MDMA. Felt like someone had improved the reception on the world and turned off the static and noise.
One way is to pick off an easy bug or feature... even something as simple as update documentation or update a comment or a config file. In my earlier years, drinking coffee was warm up enough. Something that has been fun recently is to type in “hacking music” or “programmig music” into youtube.
stay 1 minor release behind major releases of apple hardware, you will be happiest