From Brian Merchant:
“After [POTUS] was elected the first time, there was also a lot of talk about making iPhones in the US. At the time, I co-edited the sci-fi outlet Terraform, and asked Tim Maughan to imagine what such a future might really look like.
Flyover Country is a vision of a bleak, poverty-stricken America, where precarious day laborers and "criminal" migrants and detainees work day in and day out assembling iPhones. I read it again today, and it punched me in the gut all over again.
With his permission, I'm republishing the story in full:” https://open.substack.com/pub/bloodinthemachine/p/flyover-country?r=af8ax&utm_medium=ios
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