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Comment by h2odragon | Hacker News Reader

Large, squid like aliens will show up and announce they have been grooming humanity for the last 4,000 or so years to manufacture and repair microelectronics for them.

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Do they let us work remote?

So far. Transplanting things to a different biosphere is just so.. icky.

Galactically-feared aliens arrive on Earth and come up with a diabolical plan to force us to work 4 hours a day, three days a week with full medical, dental, and prescription coverage along with 60 days of vacation per year.

The rest of the galaxy scratches their...whatevers...wondering why the humans throw down their tools and rush to work for the invaders.

I'd buy that book.

The Coworking Space at the End of the Universe.

I actually saw this recently (within the last week) on /r/hfy. (Not the book, just a short story. The aliens were going to kidnap a million humans, work them 20 hours a week for five years, then send each one home with a kilo of gold. If we didn't agree, they were going to destroy the earth. They thought they were being big nasty conquerors, imposing harsh terms...)

Explains the shortage as well as Apple letting people fix their own stuff.

Sad to say this sounds nowhere near as bad as the scenarios at the low end of my estimation error bars for how next year could go.

If I finally get an RTX3080 I might be OK with that outcome.

The squids are the ones taking all of them, duh.

So long as we get to make a heroic - if futile - last stand, I wouldn’t even be that upset. At least we’d know we are not alone.

Don't be so hasty... let's find out what the pay and benefits are, first.

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