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Or even talked about it. It employed like a quarter of the country. Why hasn't anyone sense Rosie ever tried to enact something like it instead of us getting upset at unemployment numbers?

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[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Interesting take. Do you have resources to read on this take?

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 12 hours ago

The oral history interviews of key figures that surrounded William Shockley and "the traitorous eight" by The Computer History Museum. The interviews surrounding the Motorola team were also interesting. Bo Lojek of Motorola wrote "History of Semiconductor Engineering." (Springer)