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Non-Tech : Kirk's Market Thoughts -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: robert b furman who wrote (5437)	1/12/2018 10:29:27 AM
From: Kirk ©	Respond to of 26971

Yeah, those robotic fabs still need quality engineers to keep the robots running and calibrated. Having those jobs in the US means if the engineers leave to start their own company, that company will be in the US rather than whatever country is buying those new jobs with low taxes. Only countries can afford to look out that far while CEOs want to make their money an run in less than a decade so they go where the profit potential for the next decade is highest and are gone before the consequences of their actions are fully felt. I think electronic will be around for a long time, especially for memory and computing (transistors) but eventually we'll have a revolution be it quantum or bio computing. Of course, we were worrying/thinking about that 30 years ago too when there WAS an HP Labs to do very advanced research. I wonder who is doing that research now that Tesla HQ is in that building.....