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No we definitely should not enforce a ridiculous regulation like that. Again people like you miss the entire point by thinking everything should exist only in big cities where public transportation makes sense. We need to bring these factories back to small towns and regulations like you’re proposing completely kill that.

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> We need to bring these factories back to small towns and regulations like you’re proposing completely kill that.

For an Amazon parcel sorter or a wholesaler distribution facility, sure, there are enough towns with desperate populations that can be exploited (and Amazon in particular is infamous for using that leverage).

But a company like Intel that needs highly educated staff? They won't go to some random village hours away from civilization.

People who work at a wholesaler distribution facility don’t want the same lifestyle comforts as the highly educated? That’s a strange claim. I know lots of highly educated folks who love rural life, and blue collar workers who enjoy urban amenities.

Hours away from civilization? This example fab is 7mi from downtown Saratoga Springs, an absolutely delightful small town.

It is also <30mi from Albany and ~20mi from Troy.

Loads of small towns aren't hours away from "civilization".

Amazon builds warehouses where their customers are. That’s why they have a lot of warehouses in Red Hook, Brooklyn [1] - an industrial neighborhood located off of a major highway within NYC.

[1] https://www.consumerreports.org/corporate-accountability/ama...

This regulation being proposed would not just effect fabs. I’m originally from southern Illinois, a place with a total of 300k people spread out over a large area. Most towns are <10k and the biggest is 40k. In this area there are a /ton/ of factories making everything from car parts and tires to books to bombs and artillery shells. Most of these factories are outside of towns and there is zero public transportation.

With this in mind do you see the problem with only allowing factories to be built in places accessible to public transportation? The people making such proposals are seriously out of touch with half of the country.

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