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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.
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- Both “200” and “160” are 2 minutes in microwave math
- When you’re a kid, you don’t realize you’re also watching your mom and dad grow up.
- More dreams have been destroyed by alarm clocks than anything else
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Are you saying nothing new is produced/invented in China? They publish plenty of scientific papers and develop plenty of things, so I am a but unsure of what you mean
Nah, they got a point:
Apple spent billions training Chinese workers how to do highly skilled manufacturing work for pennies and shitty hours with huge turnover rates. Remember the days of suicide nets in factories where the workers lived?
Apple viewed them as a disposible work force, they viewed it as job training.
They wash out, then get jobs doing the same things "the Apple method" for more pay and better conditions for a Chinese company.
Still not great pay, still not great conditions, but there's an incentive there to work for a local company instead of Apple.
Over decades this has led to today where even if we tank our manufacturing away, that just makes manufacturing Chinese competitors even cheaper.
It has nothing to do with discoveries, it's about a trained workforce with the infrastructure in place for them to work and a supply of the rare earth materials they need.
I'd love to be part of a trained workforce, but I cant get experience in a job because the recruiter needs 5+ years experience on the job.