Jim Devine wrote: > AT&T made them durable. Nowadays, our phones are built to be recycled quickly under the assumption that we'll buy a new one soon. The cell phone companies' planning horizon is only long for marketing. The prevailing crap about raising profits every quarter -- and screw long-term planning -- seems a product of the competitive capitalism of recent memory. <
After decades, the capacity and speed of semiconductors still increase so quickly that it would be a waste to make products durable beyond the technological life of the chips inside them. However, Silicon Valley never drove the creation of tens of millions of industrial jobs, exactly the opposite of Detroit (the vehicle complex) of roughly 1910-1940. Even the assembly jobs for electronics products in China exist only because of their extremely low wages. Foxconn itself claims it will install a million robots in the next three years. Charles Andrews No Rich, No Poor http://www.amazon.com/NO-RICH-POOR-CHARLES-ANDREWS/dp/096799053X/ _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
