📚 node [[repair and jobs]]

Repair and jobs

To say nothing of the impact on jobs: landfilling a kiloton of ewaste creates <1 job; recycling that waste creates 15 jobs, while repairing it creates 200 good, local jobs that can't be offshored (you don't send a phone overseas for repair).

https://pluralistic.net/2021/05/26/nixing-the-fix/#r2r

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