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There is supposedly some reshoring in the US but I don't really see it from hardware startups unless they have something bulky/specialized/low volume. The bigg

There is supposedly some reshoring in the US but I don't really see it from hardware startups unless they have something bulky/specialized/low volume. The bigger question is not whether we should employ in one taxation region or another to concentrate wealth as we see fit, but rather how quickly generalized arms, machine vision and new manufacturing processes will impact our ability to rely on labor as a source of societal stability.

look_lookatme 11y ago
The concept of a revival of American manufacturing is a myth promulgated, for the most part, by one company: Boston Consulting Group. (pdf warning) http://www2.itif.org/2015-myth-american-manufacturing-renaissance.pdf http://www2.itif.org/2015-myth-american-manufacturing-renais...
- YokoZar 11y ago
  Questionable revival or not, the fact remains the US manufactures more in terms of dollars than it ever has -- it just does it with dramatically fewer people.
tim333 11y ago
Lithium batteries are perhaps an example. Grove had: >The U.S. lost its lead in batteries 30 years ago when it stopped making consumer electronics devices. >Unlike with microprocessors, the U.S. share of lithium-ion battery production is tiny But now the cutting edge seems to be Tesla's Gigafactory https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gigafactory_1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gigafactory_1