I think the markup would be even higher for this kind of manufacturing. What you'd need for truly "local" production is some kind of cheap shortcut. 3D printin

I think the markup would be even higher for this kind of manufacturing. What you'd need for truly "local" production is some kind of cheap shortcut. 3D printing uses this "bits of molten plastic" process, which isn't exactly industrial injection moulding, but workable enough. Book print-on-demand doesn't use offset, it uses relatively cheap and crappy laser and inkjet printing (and e.g. no hardcover as of yet). I can't think of any universally acceptable equivalent for electronics (common processor or FCPGA only work for a certain subset), and the plethora of different connections are beyond any sane automatic manufacturing concept. In addition, this would to be highly automated to be profitable, laden with patents and still quite huge. So it's quite likely that this will be run by a international chain, which kinda makes the "support your local electro-plutocrat" argument moot. Haven't seen someone calling for support to their local McDonalds… This needs some really big manufacturing breakthroughs to properly work, and given those, the whole world would look quite different. And we haven't even talked about regulations…