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This model was maybe viable in XIX century when our economy was simpler, but it's impossible to produce anything really complex (like a modern x86 CPU) like tha
by badpun 8y ago
This model was maybe viable in XIX century when our economy was simpler, but it's impossible to produce anything really complex (like a modern x86 CPU) like that. A network of thousands tiny, family-owned businesses will never self-organise to produce such CPU.
- discreteevent 8y agoThis is true for a cpu, but is it true for a phone or a car?
- JetSpiegel 8y agoBut thousands of vendors and suppliers need to organize to produce a CPU, or an airplane, or a car. Self-organization is indeed utopic, but let's not pretend raw materials enter some Intel factory and Xeons come out the other end.