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flugenblar t1_j7bl1si wrote
Reply to comment by ackillesBAC in ‘iPhones are made in hell’: 3 months inside China’s iPhone city - Workers describe a peak production season marred by labor protests and Covid-19 chaos, right as Apple reconsiders its China supply chain. by speckz
I think you are making your own best argument against your position.
flugenblar t1_j735y2e wrote
Reply to comment by ackillesBAC in ‘iPhones are made in hell’: 3 months inside China’s iPhone city - Workers describe a peak production season marred by labor protests and Covid-19 chaos, right as Apple reconsiders its China supply chain. by speckz
OTOH (just being argumentative) if the government comes in and makes people's lives comfortable even when the local economy sucks, then we're subsidizing certain choices being made by people. I don't live in a small town with few choices for employment. For a reason.
flugenblar t1_j08j208 wrote
Reply to comment by capaldithenewblack in Cancer mRNA vaccine completes pivotal trial by ILikeTasks
If you can treat a disease for 10 or 20 years, the price will go down. If the medicine cures the disease, the price will skyrocket because you can only sell it once to a patient.
~US medicine business
flugenblar t1_j08ik4k wrote
Reply to comment by cld1984 in Cancer mRNA vaccine completes pivotal trial by ILikeTasks
Maybe somebody needs to be working on developing a vaccine printer.
flugenblar t1_j7bld3p wrote
Reply to comment by ackillesBAC in ‘iPhones are made in hell’: 3 months inside China’s iPhone city - Workers describe a peak production season marred by labor protests and Covid-19 chaos, right as Apple reconsiders its China supply chain. by speckz
So are you arguing that Microsoft should move to small town in order to raise the median wages there? What about the town they left?