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Story about Foxconn diversifying their manufacturing supply chain and not depending on China alone.
Been thinking about technology a lot. Technological advancements can probably hold benefits for our lives, but not so much when they are implemented on purely economic considerations. Case in point, rapid integration of "surveillance" cell phones into every aspect of daily life without considering the effects on our minds and loss of freedoms. Probably driven by the "be the first" mentality and the desire for more money on the part of tech companies.
The US and other areas that industrialized first have advantages, I think over China because the Chinese industrialized way too quickly. We have certainly had our health-related industrial disasters (thinking Poisoning of Michigan and Radium Girls as examples), but I think we are more adapted to the benefits and limits of technology. The Europeans may be even better off in some ways as they (until pharmaceutical companies got aggressive) were willing to say "no" to certain new technologies/products if the environmental and health harms were not known.
The "precautionary principle" has, I believe, been misunderstood in the US. When a new technology is conceived we should assume there are risks even if not known. It is better to be "second place" than to run off a cliff as it seems to me China has done.
That said, the United States still has advantages over Europe, I think. Our demographics were until very recently (post Gardasil, maybe?) better than Europe's. I think family centric life can be restored here as a lot of us are Christian and value hard work and ethical behavior. I have not known what to make of robots. I've seen them replace repetitive tasks that no one would really want to do long term. However, employers need to get over the "anti-human" mentality I've seen a lot of. The employees are what a company should be about to a great extent. People will support and promote products from companies that employ themselves and their families. We should return to a format where the young man starting out as a janitor can move to a corner office with integration of leadership into actual factories and not sitting in offices in another state. Smaller businesses need to be emphasized.
Many of us can return to semi-rural life. A lot of us can benefit from living on homesteads and family farms. A few well done factories with automation of dangerous or receptive tasks would be a boon. Plus strong environmental controls and monitoring. It would be great to see a lot of small independent labs (not government agencies which are quickly turned into "sock puppets" for big industrial interests) to test, test, test for safety and contamination. Plus manufacture substances of proven benefit that we don't want imported from China. Thinking Vitamin C and HCQ right off the bat.
Glad I can speak my mind here. Dangerous to say you support Christian families, atm. The level of demonic hatred in the world is so great right now. There is a reason for that!