https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/14/business/undersea-power-cables-electricity.html
His dad had worked there, it’s where he’d met his mum. His grandad had worked for the same company. The family told tales of some great, great relative who’d been an apprentice in the factory. There were photos of the shop floor, a worker leading a strike. The factory was different now of course: cleaner, safer. There were fewer workers too. His friends didn’t get it. They had jobs with their own Agents. Better paid, abstract jobs. When they lost them, another appeared. He looked at his great great relative standing next to a giant reel. He just made things.