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ASUS Running Out of Hard Disks
The hard drive crunch continues; reader Thorfinn.au writes "ASUS has said it only has hard disk drive (HDD) inventory until the end of November. 'Substitutes for HDD are very few, so if the situation persists, not only notebook production will be affected but also desktops, and other component shipments will also drop,' Asustek CFO David Chang told Reuters."
US workers won't work in a HDD manufacturing mill without getting $15+/hr plus benefits and a labor union to strong arm management. That cannot compete with conditions overseas where the wages are pennies on the dollar and minimal benefits and dictatorship rules over every employee.
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Keeping idle production capacity around is extremely expensive.
US workers won't work in a HDD manufacturing mill without getting $15+/hr plus benefits...
My god! $30K/year and health insurance? What a bunch of greedy bastards! Don't they know how those extravagant wages will affect the incomes of the top 1%?
> What a bunch of greedy bastards! Don't they know how those extravagant wages will affect the incomes of the top 1%?
It won't affect the top 1% at all. The rest of us, on the other hand, will find hard drives much less affordable.
But when labor has more money, they can buy more goods. That makes more jobs, and everyone is better off. A rising tide raises all ships.
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The solution is to prohibit corporations that want to do business in America from sidestepping American laws on environmental regulation and wages. Won't ever happen, but that would solve the problem.
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Two of the countries we're talking about have over a billion people.. might want to think about your plan a bit more.