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Detroit's decline wasn't really caused by tech. More that unions jacked the wages and other costs for car production there so the production moved elsewhere.
by tim333 1y ago
Detroit's decline wasn't really caused by tech. More that unions jacked the wages and other costs for car production there so the production moved elsewhere.
- pjmlp 1y agoAh the unions, thankfully a problem that US software engineers do not have to worry about, between offshoring and AI based automations.
- red-iron-pine 1y agothe rustbelt was caused by the rest of the world catching up after being bombed back to the stone age during WW2. unions kept wages high and led to offshoring, but inefficient garbage tier cars from Detroit lost ground to better engineering and no planned obsolesce coming from European and Japanese models. A lot of that came from a decline in steel, coal, and acute pain points related to the oil crises in the 70s.