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Yep, financialisation black hole. Cratering living standards, partially hidden by printing ever bigger numbers next to people's house prices and ignoring that t
by amiga_500 6y ago
Yep, financialisation black hole. Cratering living standards, partially hidden by printing ever bigger numbers next to people's house prices and ignoring that they have no retirement savings.
Many of the "industries" beloved by this site are showing they are only viable on top of a backbone of "real" jobs like industry and manufacturing.
No N95 mask manufacturers, but we can write how sad we are about this on facebook. And the media won't tell us the root cause, so nothing is learned.
- kanwisher 6y ago3M one of the biggest n95 manufactures in the world, originated and still has factories in America
- 12elephant 6y agoN95 is the US standard, so it makes sense the US makes more of these than other countries. Compare production capacity of N95s in the US with FFP2/3 in the EU, or KN95 in China. Then we'll really see how US production capacity stacks up. To be clear, I have no idea how these production capacities stack up. But if we want to evaluate medical mask production, this is the comparison that needs to be made.
- amiga_500 6y agoYes and the Greeks invented math, but times move on: https://www.wired.com/story/decades-offshoring-led-mask-shortage-pandemic/ https://www.wired.com/story/decades-offshoring-led-mask-shor...