ASUS Running Out of Hard Disks 207
The hard drive crunch continues; reader Thorfinn.au writes "ASUS has said it only has hard disk drive (HDD) inventory until the end of November. 'Substitutes for HDD are very few, so if the situation persists, not only notebook production will be affected but also desktops, and other component shipments will also drop,' Asustek CFO David Chang told Reuters."
Re:Opportunity for U.S. manufacturing to step up? (Score:4, Insightful)
Re:Opportunity for U.S. manufacturing to step up? (Score:5, Insightful)
Keeping idle production capacity around is extremely expensive.
Re:Opportunity for U.S. manufacturing to step up? (Score:5, Insightful)
US workers won't work in a HDD manufacturing mill without getting $15+/hr plus benefits...
My god! $30K/year and health insurance? What a bunch of greedy bastards! Don't they know how those extravagant wages will affect the incomes of the top 1%?
Re:Opportunity for U.S. manufacturing to step up? (Score:2, Insightful)
> What a bunch of greedy bastards! Don't they know how those extravagant wages will affect the incomes of the top 1%?
It won't affect the top 1% at all. The rest of us, on the other hand, will find hard drives much less affordable.
Re:Opportunity for U.S. manufacturing to step up? (Score:5, Insightful)
But when labor has more money, they can buy more goods. That makes more jobs, and everyone is better off. A rising tide raises all ships.
Re:Opportunity for U.S. manufacturing to step up? (Score:5, Insightful)
The solution is to prohibit corporations that want to do business in America from sidestepping American laws on environmental regulation and wages. Won't ever happen, but that would solve the problem.
Re:Opportunity for U.S. manufacturing to step up? (Score:4, Insightful)