Offshoring has, quite simply, gutted the American middle class. But it took more than the presence of several hundred million unemployed Chinese to make offshoring feasible. Some are technological, some are cultural.
The advent of employer-provided health insurance some 70 years ago is now killing jobs for Baby Boomers, their children, and their children’s children. It’s an American catastrophe.
IPC-A-610 and IPC-J-STD-001 are widely believed to ensure high reliability of electronic assemblies. In fact, they drive up costs and make products less reliable.
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