I'm also old enough to remember pre-Microsoft when bugs, crashes, and failures weren't taken for granted.
Naked, unspeakable greed on the part of the tech oligarchs; and then, the rot spread via Jack Welch and the McKinsey institute, to the rest of business.
I wrote about it here on FR around 15 years ago.
And yes, John Kerry and the other Dems were big on sending the US economy to China; I can show you links from 2004 which mention him by name on trade "missions" to China to send US manufacturing there, long before anyone thought of CHINA as a threat.
Remember this all started with the treasonous Bill Clinton, in addition to sending China the guidance systems for ICBM MIRVs, giving them Most Favored Nation status: I've read recently that $50 TRILLION of US wealth was sent to other countries.
Or we can talk about the head of Chemistry at HARVARD being arrested for taking $$ under the table to work for China, among professors at other Universities.
Most of our pharmaceuticals and medicines are manufactured in China.
So it isn't just IT or programming: the theft just started there.
tl;dr == Sod off, troll.
Actually, Nixon opened the door.
China walked right by him, treating him like a butler.
He flinched because the State Department was more powerful than he.
Now...who was Nixon’s Secy of State....
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tl;dr == Sod off, troll.
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you sent a lengthy reply and ended with this. Did you forget to include the troll? If not which one of us is the troll?