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Originally Posted by SIGSEGV
There may be additional redeeming qualities.
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I'm aware that it's rather gauche these days to speak of such sordid realities in some circles, but industrial capability still counts for something.
Civilization kinda relies on it.
The 3 major steel plants of NWI (Indiana harbor, gary works, & burns harbor) possess over
HALF of the nation's blast furnace capacity to produce brand new steel from mineral ore. And the BP refinery in Whiting is the largest refinery in the nation outside of TX/LA (6th overall).
The dirtiest work of our civilization has to occur somewhere.
Unfortunately for NWI, it just doesn't require a whole lot of physical manpower anymore, thanks to radical amounts of automation over the past half century.