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The headline, as usual, is wrong. The tiny screw shows not why it won't be assembled in USA but why it should be assembled. Making a phone or laptop requires a
by lmilcin 8y ago
The headline, as usual, is wrong.
The tiny screw shows not why it won't be assembled in USA but why it should be assembled. Making a phone or laptop requires an entire industry to back it up. Making those things in US makes it possible that these industries will come back.
Also, just for US security it is probably not important that the screws are imported. What is important is that the electronics are not handled outside US and US retains its ability to make practical electronics and not rely 100% on China.
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- onion2k 8y agoMaking those things in US makes it possible that these industries will come back. Isn't that a chicken-and-egg scenario though? The industry won't come back if manufacturers don't bring production back, but manufacturers won't bring production back until there's a local industry to bring it back to.
- lmilcin 8y agoThere is an important incentive to manufacture some category of products that are necessary for security. How do you feel about EVERY single non-trivial chip and piece of electronics manufactured outside US? Can you, currently, buy ANY kind of computer that is not being handled in China? It sure will cost more, but the industry does not grow overnight and people do need time to get experienced and I think it is vital that some country other than China supplies electronics, too.
- shaki-dora 8y agoThe title uses the screw to illustrate a larger problem. You don’t give any argument why the case the article makes is wrong. Your alternative even supports it, and only adds the sort of grand political viewpoint people usually accuse the media of.