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Portland, represent! I notice a distinct lack of car companies on here.
by dclowd9901 9y ago
Portland, represent!
I notice a distinct lack of car companies on here.
- metaphor 9y ago> I notice a distinct lack of car companies on here. Perhaps the list differentiates between made and assembled in USA.
- mikeash 9y agoBy “things” they seem to mean something like “department store items.” Aside from cars, as a list of great things made in the US, it’s missing important products like airliners, computer chips, and pharmaceuticals.
- yjftsjthsd-h 9y ago> computer chips Do we make those?
- mikeash 9y agoSure. Have you heard of this little company called Intel?
- yjftsjthsd-h 9y agoOn, you're right: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Intel_manufacturing_sites https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Intel_manufacturing_si... I had assumed their actual production was elsewhere. Neat:)
- mikeash 9y agoI can't blame you for that assumption. We hear this constant drumbeat of "The US doesn't make things anymore!" After you hear that enough, you might start thinking that it's true. (The US is the second largest manufacturer in the world with about 17% of the global total, behind China with about 23%, for those wondering where it actually stands.) It doesn't help that US manufacturing tends to build things that are less visible to the average person. You buy some fancy new laptop made overseas, but don't think about the fact that the highest value part of that laptop was probably made in the US, and if it was shipped by air it probably traveled in a US-made plane. (If Boeing's commercial airplane business were its own country, it would rank around #33 in the world's largest manufacturing economies.) We see "foreign" cars on the road and don't think about how many of them are actually built here. And of course manufacturing employment isn't very high, because productivity is growing fast. So most of us don't know many people who work in that sector, which again makes it easier to forget how big it is.