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The overall economic cost of trying to maintain generation after generation doing the same thing with the same results far outweighs the people experiencing som
by knownjorbist 5y ago
The overall economic cost of trying to maintain generation after generation doing the same thing with the same results far outweighs the people experiencing some pain of having to re-train, go to school or move elsewhere. If anything that's where the government should be trying to help, not trying to prop up industries with our tax dollars.
- systemvoltage 5y agoI think it’s also about resilience of global reliance and disruptions. “Someone’s gotta make stuff” as Elon puts it. Manufacturing of stupid trivial things like buttons and pins is still important to keep high volume manufacturing knowledge and knowhow.
- knownjorbist 5y agoWith select exceptions(defense, mainly), disruptions of the kind you're describing are best handled with multilateralism.
- systemvoltage 5y agoDefinitely defense, if you study history - how bacon grease was collected from homes to make lubricant for cartridges during WWII; making pins and buttons for clothes was turned into component manufacturing for airplanes almost overnight. Within a few days, people worked to convert equipment, draft new mechanisms, turn them at the machine shop, fixer-upper some machines - converted the entire enterprise into making shaft pins and washers. There were countless examples of how quickly manufacturing of A was converted to manufacturing of B. Ken Burns documentary goes much deeper into this and I find it totally fascinating. Chinese populace has an insane level of "jerry-rigging" capability because of how they bring costs down. This is a huge advantage in war manufacturing theater. This is now questionable as Americans (and Europeans alike) are constantly in consumption mode.