It's all very well to shut the China R&D operations, but is the domestic R&D growing by an equivalent amount? Or is IBM's total R&D declining by the amount of that lost China R&D?
The single-payer health system. That covers everybody with a basic but high-quality level of health care. The rich can afford a (slightly) better health care using Private Health Insurance, but that generally only allows short-circuiting the length of time one waits for elective surgery. However, even the rich can get absolutely free medical care from doctors and hospitals.
When I went into hospital for triple-bypass cardiac surgery, my queue-time was about 14 days from "We're not sure if we'll let you go home tonight" to "Welcome to the Theatre Suite" using the public no-charge part of the health care system. The "routine bypass surgery" (according to my medical records) was performed under the public, no-charge system. Thank-you to my Iranian-immigrant cardiac surgeon.
That was followed by two days in ICU, again using the public, no charge part of the health care system.
From there I went into a Private Single-bed room for the next 3 or four days, using the Private Health Insurance part of the health care system.
After I went home, I had six weeks of Cardiac Rehab, again being paid for the Private Health Insurance part of the health care system.
My out of pocket expenses: Zilch, nada, nuffink.
The Australian public health care system is paid for by a taxation levy: the rich subsidise the poor. It's a win-win system. We all benefit. Without the system in place, the rich would miss out too, as the system would otherwise be too expensive even for most of them, if available at all that is.
Without it, I almost certainly would have died 19 years ago.
This is a problem with Military Sealift Command, which operates these vessels with civilian mariners (CIVMAR). MSC has had recruitment and retainment problems for a long time. These problems compound because, for instance, mariners are denied leave due to staffing shortages, causing more mariners to leave the service entirely.
CIVMARs were treated really badly during COVID which ended up creating a slow-moving problem that is now coming to a head with a collapse of the service.
I've been a programmer since the 1970s. This bullshit theory gets trotted out every few years. 50 years in, and there are more and more programmers, not less and less.
Deluxe! Remember back about 1995, when Windows NT would make programmers 5 to 10 times more productive, and CEOs could get rid of the corresponding head count?
But Linux distro is very mainstream: Linux Mint MATE