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Economy

groundloop

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5. I spent 15 years at a company which manufactured fiber optic cable......

Reply to Eugene (Original post)

Sat May 10, 2025, 01:24 PM

May 10

Every single bit of the manufacturing equipment we used came from Europe. The company bean counters would have gladly bought American equipment if it was available and of equal quality, but it just didn't exist.

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