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Lol at all the stupid fuckers in WNY who thought manufacturing microprocessors would be a good idea. I told people about the Foxconn debacle in Wisconsin but the delusions are too strong. Same people who think the Bills will win a Superbowl any year.
Tbf Upstate New Yorkers are desperate for anything to help the brain drain. I remember living there when Kodak was on its last legs and it falling was a huge blow to the region.
Since then they’ve been looking for anything from Amazon to this.
literally everywhere in the US says they have a brain drain. what they have is a neoliberal globalized capitalism that turns everyone into fucking peasants again. brain drain is making excuses for capitalism.
I tell them "the soviet union never had brain drain. note drain deez soviet nutz!"
I wish they would learn from their past instead of trying to repeat the company town model. The local Rochester newspaper just did a couple articles about racial tensions arising from Kodak's discriminatory practices and the redlining that happened in the surrounding Maplewood neighborhood. Even when it was a good city it only applied to white folks.
It looks like they’ve repeated it once again with the U or R now filling in where Kodak left off.
They love local billionaire Tom Golisano too, he's the only person capable of creating wealth apparently. Being a company town allows them to maintain their bigoted ways. Yeah the majority of population in Rochester is black or Hispanic, but you'd never guess that if you met the staff working at U of R and Paychex.
What was the foxconn debacle?
Trump and Scott walker promised a Foxconn factory in Wisconsin would make thousands of high paying jobs, it was total bullshit, ended up just being a giveaway of taxpayer money, the jobs never materialized to nearly the extent claimed. There are good articles out there on it.
I listened to a good podcast on that recently. I think it was Worst of All Possible Worlds? I'll see if I can find it for you, it was really funny.
Well shit, I'm drawing a total blank on it and I can't find anything that looks like it in my listen history from the last couple days but I'm certain I heard it the other night. That's really bizarre, sorry. I'll post it if it turns up for me.
Finally found it, it was the latest episode of The Antifada.
Awesome, thanks, I’ll give it a listen!
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I put all my life savings on the bills winning the superbowl this year. is this a good idea?