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Shoutout to Ohio! Interesting they chose Troy Township (population 4k), wonder if they plan on employing the entire city.

I'm unfortunately a little skeptical, but I hope it works for the city/state and Peloton. If you find the idea of new plants opening in the US interesting, I recommend the documentary American Factory. It is about a plant owned by a Chinese company opening in Ohio (Dayton), so the circumstances are completely different from this. It explores the clash of cultures and conflict of attitudes of the employers and employees. I liked how they dove into some employees and employers lives and circumstances.

I thought it was interesting, but I'm a little biased because I happened to be living near Dayton when it was filmed, and had no clue this type of thing was going on.



> wonder if they plan on employing the entire city.

Population of Miami county is 100k. People in this part of the country travel 30-45 miles to work.

https://www.google.com/search?q=miami+county+population

They always talk about upto x number of jobs. Actual numbers are usually lower.

There are close to hundred Japanese companies/factories in Ohio.


I thought this was up in Troy Township (Wood County), not in Troy (the city, in Miami county).


I don't know if this does anything for you, but American Factory was actually produced by the Obamas. Their first Netflix documentary.

Politics aside, I thought that was a pretty neat tidbit.


> Shoutout to Ohio! Interesting they chose Troy Township (population 4k), wonder if they plan on employing the entire city.

I bet no, and I bet they also went trying the cumbersome robotisation route yet again.




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