In the on-again, off-again dis\u00adcus\u00adsions about bail\u00ading out three auto man\u00adu\u00adfac\u00adtur\u00aders who are in large part respons\u00adible for their own prob\u00adlems (which they admit), the major reas\u00adon giv\u00aden for not let\u00adting them go the way of any oth\u00ader com\u00adpany in fin\u00adan\u00adcial trouble is to cre\u00adate work and jobs for the people they employ. Surely bet\u00adter things can be found for these employ\u00adees to do than to cre\u00adate products that nobody wants to buy? Cre\u00adat\u00ading man\u00adu\u00adfac\u00adtured products con\u00adsumes pre\u00adcious resources ran\u00adging from metals and min\u00ader\u00adals dug out of the earth to power gen\u00ader\u00adated to run the factor\u00adies. Then the res\u00adult\u00ading products will be stock\u00adpiled some\u00adwhere, since nobody wants to buy them, left to rust and dis\u00adin\u00adteg\u00adrate until they\u2019re shred\u00added to \u201crecycle\u201d the valu\u00adables left in them while the rest of the product is dumped in a land\u00adfill. As make-work schemes go, this is, to my mind, not one of the bet\u00adter ones.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
In the on-again, off-again dis\u00adcus\u00adsions about bail\u00ading out three auto man\u00adu\u00adfac\u00adtur\u00aders who are in large part respons\u00adible for their own prob\u00adlems (which they admit), the major reas\u00adon giv\u00aden for not let\u00adting them go the way of any oth\u00ader com\u00adpany in fin\u00adan\u00adcial trouble is to cre\u00adate work and jobs for the people they employ. Surely bet\u00adter \u2026 Con\u00adtin\u00adue read\u00ading \u201cAuto Industry Musings\u201d<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=441"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":446,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441\/revisions\/446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}