What Austin Vernon thinks about hiring

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Engineer and investor who writes quantitative posts about how physical industries actually work — chemical plants, geothermal drilling, shipyards, thermal storage and the economics of low-volume manufacturing — at austinvernon.site.

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1. 12 Feb 2026

   Our readingChina installs more robots than America because it has a surplus of underemployed engineers, not because robots are self-evidently the right answer.

   ChinaAmericarobotics

   Their wordsIt has a surplus of STEM graduates that are often underemployed, while "Hukou" residency restrictions complicate hiring hourly labor in coastal factories.

   ↗Speed Can Reindustrialize Americaaustinvernon.site 5th of 15 in this piece