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The $205.4B Gulag

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Re: The $205.4B Gulag

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Post by xyzzyz »

AstralStorm wrote: post #97
xyzzyz wrote: post #84

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No, my position is that their situation is not so terrible as claimed by the people who compare the grad students to low paid workers in retail or manufacturing. They are compensated highly in non-financial terms. More importantly, the main reason people negotiate with one another is that they hope to achieve better outcomes than they can with either a default of no action, or unilateral actions. Imagine that the gra…

Oh, they can do far more than just quit. The threat of a strike is one of explicit disruption of work and distribution of products. Potentially even including violence against strikebreakers. There can be other threats against people responsible for salaries and work conditions directly.

We are talking about grad students here, in case you missed that.

Re: The $205.4B Gulag

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Post by SpelingBeeChamp »

xyzzyz wrote: post #63
pryelluw wrote: post #40

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Ok then list just 5 options they have from the tons you claim exist. Go ahead, no hurry. Please make sure to provide factual options that can be corroborated.

My friend just got a job as a delivery truck driver here in WA. Works 4 days a week, from 4 AM to 2 PM, and makes north of $100k. He tells me that the trucking companies are hiring like crazy. Do you think this is beyond the abilities of grad students?

Wow. Does their job require a CDL?

Re: The $205.4B Gulag

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Post by STM32F030R8 »

AlbertCory wrote: post #48
keewee7 wrote: post #3

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Almost all consumer electronics are made at these Chinese manufacturers. Only the high-end chips are from Taiwan, South Korea, or Arizona. I'm software engineer at a Danish company that also manufactures a lot of industrial electronics. Our insight is that China is still the cheapest place to manufacture PCBs but it is surprisingly more efficient to setup pick-and-place robots here in Denmark to place the components…

> If we can figure out how to efficiently print the PCBs in Denmark/EU see my other post. It used to be part of a garage-shop economy here in Silicon Valley.

Modern pcbs cannot be compared to garage shop pcbs. No one in a garage is going to be making me blind/buried/stacked micro vias, controlled impedance traces, exotic substrates etc. there are a handful of proto shops in the USA that can do it but the vast vast majority is in china. For large scale pcbs needed for consumer electronics I’m not sure any domestic supplier could meet the demand. I don’t know the situation in EU but it’s probably similar. Don’t even get me started on flex pcb vendors…

Re: The $205.4B Gulag

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Post by AlbertCory »

STM32F030R8 wrote: post #103
AlbertCory wrote: post #48

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> If we can figure out how to efficiently print the PCBs in Denmark/EU see my other post. It used to be part of a garage-shop economy here in Silicon Valley.

Modern pcbs cannot be compared to garage shop pcbs. No one in a garage is going to be making me blind/buried/stacked micro vias, controlled impedance traces, exotic substrates etc. there are a handful of proto shops in the USA that can do it but the vast vast majority is in china. For large scale pcbs needed for consumer electronics I’m not sure any domestic supplier could meet the demand. I don’t know the situation…

that was kinda tongue-in-cheek.

Back when you could do it in garages, things were a little simpler.

Re: The $205.4B Gulag

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Post by xyzzyz »

SpelingBeeChamp wrote: post #102
xyzzyz wrote: post #63

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My friend just got a job as a delivery truck driver here in WA. Works 4 days a week, from 4 AM to 2 PM, and makes north of $100k. He tells me that the trucking companies are hiring like crazy. Do you think this is beyond the abilities of grad students?

Wow. Does their job require a CDL?

Yes, but if grad students are good at anything at all, passing exams is one of those things.

Re: The $205.4B Gulag

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Post by legutierr »

rayiner wrote: post #91
legutierr wrote: post #38

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So graduate education should only be available to the children of the wealthy, in your opinion?

I think graduate students are aspiring members of the petit bourgeoise, and typically are going to come from such families anyway, and shouldn’t dilute real workers’ movements with their quite distinct interests.

So, workers' movements don't benefit from their members going to graduate school?

Perhaps you have identified graduate school students as aspiring members of the petit bourgeoise because only individuals with such aspirations would rationally pay for graduate school in today's system.

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