It teaches people how to find bullshit jobs or just talks about them? I heard of it and only know that it's an attack on automation/keynesian economics.
The value in this case would be to identify types of jobs and the various red flags around them. Some BS jobs actually have a lot of, pointless, work attached to them. You would want to avoid these.
Within the nomenclature of the book, some Flunkie jobs would be what you are looking for. Others not so much.
While the book is very poetic, and very funny, the most useful part for you, I surmise, would be the descriptions supplied to the author as part of his research. Lots of stories where the job in question had no real activities associated with them other than keeping a low profile. One in particular, a municipal water worker, who was systematically being deprived of duties by rival factions managed to stop showing up for work for several years, yet stayed on the payroll for several years unnoticed.
There apparently some unwanted notoriety and legal action towards the end of his tenure. Avoiding this may be considered an exercise for the student/reader...
China won’t have the chance. The fabs will be destroyed before the first PLA foot hits the ground. All parties know this. It will set the world back decades.
No parties know this. Entire TW will blow up its own fabs started off as meme that people have ran with. The only serious analysis about deliberately blowing up TW fabs was by US Army War College on the poor premise that it would deter PRC invasion when destroying fabs work in PRC favor by resetting everyone back decades... closing the gap.
It's more likely US & PRC will coordinate to save TW fabs with TW leadership cooperation because US controls inputs via supply chain and save trillions in US advanced industies. TW leadership will cooperate because not wiping out advanced western industry is the one golden ticket they have of comfortable retirement in the west. PRC gains leverage and access by hosting fabs. 100,000s of TW semi engineers has a comfortable future working status quo. It's basically the only arrangement that works out for everyone versus semiconductor mutually assured destruction. Reality is US has leverage via tech sanctions during peacetime, PRC has leverage during wartime by threatening to destroy all east asia semi supply chain which will kick world back to 80s instead of 00s. It's in everyone's interest not to normalize disrupting semi production.
It's US publication, they're not blackmailing themself unless drive for strategic clarity. But not compelling deterrence. Response in TW media to report was leave TSMC alone. Nothing official I've read suggest blowing up fabs for US protection since US protection is for those fabs. Like I don't doubt TW will play blackmail card if viable, but US can't slap enough free missile defense to make TW semi supply chain defendable.
On point two, perhaps. In the meantime, I assume it will take decades to reshore supply chains independent of TW making for some uneasy peace. I'll be stocking up on hardware.
E: Shame, a lot of your comments are dead actually.
What? This makes no sense. TSMC destroying their fabs isn't gonna set the world back decades, it's just going to inflate the cost of chips. And China wouldn't even going to do a full scale invasion anyways. An assassination + puppet gov installation is much more likely.
Intel doesn't have a lot of advanced fabs in the US. Hence the steady decline in its production figures. Intel still has good designers, but not the fabs to produce those designs. Cost-wise, Intel production in the US is not competitive.
That’s just not true? They have significant amounts of production in Arizona, some in Oregon (along with TD) and then the rest in Ireland and Israel (which probably aren’t much lower cost than Arizona)
