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No, Tech Isn’t the Only Part of the Economy That’s Growing

• ondiekijunior 12y ago
  This rib on Sama was in my opinion taken out of context too much. But then sama's statement; if it were made to the non-tech population would be disingenuous. However it was made at a tech event, so wasn't to be misinterpreted. And when they mentioned food service; I thought all those food service apps, loyalty programmes, CRMs and all the technical hardware
  • wallenjehn 12y ago
    Not really. What the world thinks of tech is pets.com. There was no clarification that tech isn't only apps and websites. Thats why they misinterpreted Sama
• bcbrown 12y ago
  Those graphs are pretty misleading. In the first one, manufacturing jobs rose from 11,500 to 12,100 over 4 years, or 5% growth over that period. The graph makes it look like roughly 1000% growth.
  • ondiekijunior 12y ago
    I just realized that. At a glance it seems the entire US economy is growing at a tremendous pace. The mind by default has the Y axis starting at 0, till you pay attention. Out of a population of 300,000,000 I daresay even my native country, Kenya had a better growth in real numbers with a pop. of 42 million(<i>caveat</i>: unemployment is more than 20%)