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In response to "Step 1: Don't shut it all down in the first place. -- nm" by ty97

Are you retroactively advocating that workers along the supply chain should have been thrown into the teeth of COVID? -- nm

Posted by Qale Nov 12 '21, 16:17

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A lot of the raw materials, etc, are automated. The shutdown were preemptive by the companies to control supply, not to protect workers. -- nm - ty97 Nov 12, 16:18 4
- I don't know what this means. I don't believe there is automation so good it requires no human workers, at all, like at all. -- nm - Qale Nov 12, 16:21 3
  - If you automate steel production, fine, you produce steel without human workers. But steel doesn't construct itself into - TWuG Nov 12, 16:24 2
    - as well as humans still have a way of goofing up systems. There's stories of companies doubling the quantity of chips they order -- (edited) - JD Nov 12, 16:29 1
      - It's almost always easier to break something than it is to repair it after it breaks. - TWuG Nov 12, 16:33

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