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Before the tech industry

mariaalice · 2022-08-06 21:00:19

Economists and business journalists seem to use the state of tech industries as a bell weather for the economy and hint that they are not doing well It's a disaster for the economy/sign of a ressesion, as at best modern tech industries are at best 40 years previous to this want were the industries everyone was watching,…

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06-08-2022 10:00pm

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Economists and business journalists seem to use the state of tech industries as a bell weather for the economy and hint that they are not doing well It's a disaster for the economy/sign of a ressesion, as at best modern tech industries are at best 40 years previous to this want were the industries everyone was watching, the car industries the oil industries.

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#2 06-08-2022 10:01pm
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The construction industry...celtic tiger...

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#3 06-08-2022 10:23pm
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https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119438973#Comment_119438973

That's even more recent that the tech industry

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Conventional manufacturing - clothes, processed food, homewares etc. Most of which was still done in the developed economies back then.

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#5 06-08-2022 10:30pm
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New car sales, registrations seemed to be a big thing in the recent past.

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