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COVID and the resulting supply chain issues certainly highlighted the need to produce basic necessities (e.g. food, medical supplies, antibiotics) rather than r
by atlgator 5y ago
COVID and the resulting supply chain issues certainly highlighted the need to produce basic necessities (e.g. food, medical supplies, antibiotics) rather than rely on imports. It remains to be seen whether it goes further than that.
- crate_barre 5y agoLack of redundancy got exposed. To globalize or not to globalize is entirely different from relying on one source for everything. We seriously have no where else to get semiconductors other than Taiwan? That has absolutely nothing to do with the pros/cons of globalizing and everything to do with having a bus-factor of one.