Thanks for reminding me of a company named IBM! Quantum Computer? If such a thing were to be built so as to manage to solve a real world problem, I bet it will not come from IBM. Even if they do, they will price it 5x their nearest competitor who has better wares than IBM.

On a different note, is Arvind Krishna CEO #35 there? How many CEOs do they currently have?

Like the current crop of IT companies blaming the layoffs on AI?

The biggest risk is connecting a textile mill to the internet. You have to air gap your textile machines from your computers.

One of their predictions will inadvertently come true. And that man will say, "see, I predicted it." Then pound the bookstand with one pop-economics book after another. Like Nassim Taleb, Nouriel Roubini, Rob Shiller...

Carl Marx was one and half century early.

When the dot com bubble burst, I bought high end computers on ubid.com for cheap. And good office chairs and furniture for $5 a piece in office yard sales. Same again during the financial crisis. Its been a long long time now. I want to buy high-end computers with high-end GPUs for $10.

I think that's why the AI billionaires suddenly did a U-turn lately. They are now talking about AI increasing employment, AI creating new opportunities, AI creating labor shortages... yada yada.

If the middle class is dead, to whom will the billionaires sell their wares? The value of assets comes from the demand for it. Without demand, billionaires will become millionaires.

Or this one: https://tech.slashdot.org/stor.... In fact don't buy American and you will be all right. American companies at this point are driven by unbridled greed. Be it the American printers, automobiles or any other.

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Just to clarify here, by "... that turd of a company", are you referring to Boeing?

If you ain't going, then you will be boing.

In that case Ford would start poaching from neighboring companies for a smaller pay hike, rather than rehiring. What the workers can collectively negotiate for is to pay the salaries they would have received for the layoff period, a modest hike and some sort of guarantees. Ford for its part is not going to send a rehire letter to them all, even if it has to hire most of them, to keep them divided.

And of course, once rehired, some of them will start throwing "measured" spanners into the works.

US is a country of immigrants. People from various other countries have been moving to US. Of course, they are moving to US because it offers them better quality of life, better wages. But why aren't Americans moving to other countries as much? I know some go to Mexico for retirement. But there are so many options. The quality of life in some of the other cheaper countries isn't all that bad. Sometime its just peace of mind, not living under the burden of debt. If one cannot make ends meet in the US, then emigrate to another country where your dollars are worth much more. Where your skill can help you find a better job. In some of the countries, being an English speaking American itself is a big skill on your resume. Squeeze every penny here while you have a job, save and move somewhere better.

That's enlightning