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lkrupp said:

Manufacturing is NOT coming back to America, at least not the kind that produces lots of good paying jobs. Why can’t we get this through our thick skulls? We fall for the dog and pony show every time some company waves the “JOBS” flag in our faces. 

fastasleep said:

6502 said:

There's perhaps nothing I dislike more than Oprah and English royalty (for that matter, any royalty). Apple is moving in a direction that I just don't care about.

It’s A SHOW that you don’t have to watch. JFC. 

bells said:

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Minionman said:

Ms. Warren and the rest of her liberal/progressive friends in Congress can move to Russia, China or Cuba if they would like since they believe that life is better without FREEDOM! While I may be parts of her idea to allow farmers to fix their own equipment, that is not really what she is trying do with her proposed legislation. Like many liberal/progressive ideas it sounds good from what they say but the ‘fine print’ I am certain includes many restrictive ‘strings’ attached that will limit the farmer’s FREEDOM. It is all about more and more and more government control of our lives to get and keep “We the People” under their ‘collective’ thumb. We are witnessing the effects of reducing regulation and lowering tax rates already with our current vibrant economy. More control by the government means stifling the progress that has been made in the last two years after 10-years of decline and stagnation. 

Nuts. Trump is the buddy to Russian commies. 

And how’s that conservative FREEDOM when it comes to abortion? Oops. Drug? Oops. Strip clubs? Oops. Conservatives have their own silly baggage too, clearly. 

That’s funny, because it’s the Democrats in Washington who are literally proposing Marxist policies.

Typical deflect fallacy. Throw out a scary name and fail to address the argument. Republicans have plenty of protectionist anti capitalist legislation and questionable morals to boot. Further Marxism and socialism are not the same. Socialism brought you things like public roads, education, and the Internet (e.g government research dollars).  The government spends billions on public research that couldn’t be conducted any other way. The police force, fire department, and court houses are all socialist. 

Companies like John Deere are abusing the Digital Millenum Copyrighr Act, which certainly is anti-consumer. They essentially created a software lock that prevents farmers from working on their own equipment like they have been doing for years driving the cost up for farming products. 

Many Republican States, some Democrat States, won’t let Tesla sell cars direct based on archaic laws that date back to when car manifacturers relied on dealers to sell vehicles and dealers heavily invested in their businesses to do so.

Presciption Drugs are another example. Republicans have passed legislation prohibiting the federal government from using its purchasing power to negotiate a better price for drugs, prohibiting online sales of drugs, and preventing the importation of legally obtained drugs.

Rebublcans have passed laws prohibiting power sourced from renewable resources at the expense of the so called free market.

The Republican government handed out tons of money to Foxcon to build a plant with no foreseeable near term benefit to doing so. Republicans love corporate welfare.

People like you seem to want to go back to the days when companies pretty much could do anything in the name of making a buck including killing you.

Other  people want companies to act responsibly and the only way to achieve that is legislation. That seems right since the law provides corporation owners a lot of protection from taxes and lawsuit liability.

rko said:

This should go even further, where tech has to be made recycleable, and you can give it back to the manufacturer when you're done with it.  What happens to the original apple pencil when no one needs it anymore?  it should be recycleable instead of ending up in a landfill.  Reuseable only goes so far.  Repairable is a great and necessary start. 

All tech manufacturers should have to accept their tech back when you are done with it.