Corona Virus

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Huge broadband expansion coming

[Jon Snow]

Just now, stirs said:

Huge broadband expansion coming

Who's going to be able to afford it when you're unemployed?   If it's part of an infrastructure package sure.  But broadband expansion is way down on the list of things this country needs right now.

[TheRumGone]

33 minutes ago, Paa Langfart said:

The day of the internet egghead who only knows how to program internet games 

Business is BOOMING for tech people. 

[Tbe]

 

2 minutes ago, TheRumGone said:

Business is BOOMING for tech people. 

Yep, we are more reliant on tech than ever before.

Deloitte just released their economic forecast and tech was at the top of the list of industries that will benefit most from this stuff. Internet buying will go up as physical stores close down.

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16 minutes ago, Jon Snow said:

Who's going to be able to afford it when you're unemployed?   If it's part of an infrastructure package sure.  But broadband expansion is way down on the list of things this country needs right now.

It is going to be part of the massive infrastructure bill.  Knew it would.  When everyone gets on, things crawl and certain areas crawl much worse.

Not sure what form it will take

[TheRumGone]

10 minutes ago, Tbe said:

 

Yep, we are more reliant on tech than ever before.

Deloitte just released their economic forecast and tech was at the top of the list of industries that will benefit most from this stuff. Internet buying will go up as physical stores close down.

My SO works for a company that lets businesses work from home easier. They also just created software for ventilator manufacturers and hospital workers to know how to build/run ventilators properly. It’s a huge collaboration.
 

Besides working I have played more video games in the past two months then I have in the past 5 years. People are going to be looking for many forms of entertainment at home throughout this and that’s gonna heavily rely on tech companies.

[LinvilleGorge]

13 minutes ago, Tbe said:

 

Yep, we are more reliant on tech than ever before.

Deloitte just released their economic forecast and tech was at the top of the list of industries that will benefit most from this stuff. Internet buying will go up as physical stores close down.

Retail is gonna get crushed. They were already badly struggling to compete against ecommerce and this will likely be the death blow for many of them. Unfortunately, retail jobs make up about 12% our total jobs.

[Jon Snow]

1 minute ago, stirs said:

It is going to be part of the massive infrastructure bill.  Knew it would.  When everyone gets on, things crawl and certain areas crawl much worse.

Not sure what form it will take

They same infrastructure bill that we've heard about for nearly 4 years now?  There's no way the House will let Trump get that through before the election.  Not trying to turn this political but if you are being honest with yourself you know it's true.

[TheRumGone]

We’re gonna need UBI and massive socialist programs to actually help people just survive but meanwhile Las Vegas mayor on cnn is talking about opening up the casinos and how America should just open everything up and if some places become hot spots, it’s that establishments fault and then let the free market figure it out. Can’t make this poo up.

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11 minutes ago, Jon Snow said:

They same infrastructure bill that we've heard about for nearly 4 years now?  There's no way the House will let Trump get that through before the election.  Not trying to turn this political but if you are being honest with yourself you know it's true.

Maybe not, but it seems to be the next big "package".  I guess it just depends on which party gets heat or worries about losing power.  Never about whats best anyway

[LinvilleGorge]

Let's be honest, the only way a big infrastructure bill gets passed is if some large construction companies use some lobbyists to line some pockets to get a sweetheart deal passed where they already have the contracts landed behind closed doors. That's the way big government spending works.

[Jon Snow]

4 minutes ago, LinvilleGorge said:

Let's be honest, the only way a big infrastructure bill gets passed is if some large construction companies use some lobbyists to line some pockets to get a sweetheart deal passed where they already have the contracts landed behind closed doors. That's the way big government spending works.

I agree to an extent, but there's many more professions that benefit from infrastructure spending than construction.  Construction is what you see at the end of the process.  The vast majority is the white collar workers that make construction possible.   That's the part the public doesn't see.

[Jon Snow]

11 minutes ago, LinvilleGorge said:

Let's be honest, the only way a big infrastructure bill gets passed is if some large construction companies use some lobbyists to line some pockets to get a sweetheart deal passed where they already have the contracts landed behind closed doors. That's the way big government spending works.

 

Edited April 23, 2020 by Jon Snow
Double post.

[LinvilleGorge]

2 minutes ago, Jon Snow said:

I agree to an extent, but there's many more professions that benefit from infrastructure spending than construction.  Construction is what you see at the end of the process.  The vast majority is the white collar workers that make construction possible.   That's the part the public doesn't see.

I just know how it worked in the defense industry. Those contracts were agreed upon before the legislation was ever signed. One of the companies I repped for was under the L3 Technologies umbrella. That outfit was shady as FUG. They've since merged with Harris Corporation which if anything is even shadier, but they use that shadiness to rake in billions in government contracts.