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Net positive only if your measure for success is “able to buy more widgets for less money”
by bananabiscuit 6y ago
Net positive only if your measure for success is “able to buy more widgets for less money”
- gumby 6y agoPlenty of other criteria on which it is a positive. Raising millions out of poverty. More people working on hard problems. As to the latter criterion: consider the symbolism of Aricebo collapsing in an uncontrolled fashion on the same day a Chinese spacecraft departed te moon (and a Japanese one prepared to deliver its second sample of an extraterrestrial sample). When the Bush administration restricted stem cell research, China and Singapore picked up the slack. Etc. In this case exporting technical work to states like Texas not only may open up opportunities for more people to do technical work but can help them as oil related revenues decline. The world is not zero sum and to me exporting a job to China, India, Romania or Texas as are equivalently positive. He’ll do you object to Apple building a chip development team in San Diego?
- MinusGix 6y agoI think that them being equivalently positive is a weird way of looking at it? It ignores what the poster you're replying to is probably referring towards. If you value Romanian ideals over Texan ideals then you'd prefer Romania to get a lucrative economic position of power through trade over Texas as the Romanian government provides more utility to you due to more favorable (to you) ideals. Though, I personally don't think these companies moving to Texas matters that much, but if there was a mass migration it could certainly shake things up in ways that some may appreciate and some dislike.