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> fix 40 to 50 years of global offshoring in a 10 months That's... not what I asked for. We're talking respiratory cloth masks here, not the global economy. O

> fix 40 to 50 years of global offshoring in a 10 months That's... not what I asked for. We're talking respiratory cloth masks here, not the global economy. Our discussion will be more productive if you don't put words in my mouth. You're really trying to ignore the obvious red flags. Respiratory masks for US consumption being made in China is not a result of globalization. It's just corporate greed hiding behind virtue signals.

edmundsauto 5y ago
What makes you say it's corporate greed, rather than a very strong consumer preference for the cheapest price? In the mask-price-race-to-the-bottom, US factories aren't competitive due to wage and environmental regs.
nemothekid 5y ago
>We're talking respiratory cloth masks here, not the global economy. Where do you expect these masks to be made? In people's backyards? When you are talking about suppling millions of masks, you are talking about the global economy. The tooling that is used to quickly ramp production to that scale is because you can take already existing systems that are used to develop clothing and other apparel and rapidly convert them to making masks. If you don't have that, then where do you expect it to come from? If you don't already have people working in factory, making clothes, where will you find the people to start making masks? Then lets say you do find these people, on very short notice. You are now paying them american labor prices; will your potential customers just choose to source from overseas anyways? I'm not putting words in your mouth; maybe you aren't fully aware the effort it would take to ship millions of anything on such a short timescale without having the existing infrastructure to do it; especially if that infrastructure hasn't existed for a very long time. You are putting forth a very difficult problem very matter of factly.

edmundsauto 5y ago

What makes you say it's corporate greed, rather than a very strong consumer preference for the cheapest price? In the mask-price-race-to-the-bottom, US factories aren't competitive due to wage and environmental regs.

nemothekid 5y ago

>We're talking respiratory cloth masks here, not the global economy. Where do you expect these masks to be made? In people's backyards? When you are talking about suppling millions of masks, you are talking about the global economy. The tooling that is used to quickly ramp production to that scale is because you can take already existing systems that are used to develop clothing and other apparel and rapidly convert them to making masks. If you don't have that, then where do you expect it to come from? If you don't already have people working in factory, making clothes, where will you find the people to start making masks? Then lets say you do find these people, on very short notice. You are now paying them american labor prices; will your potential customers just choose to source from overseas anyways? I'm not putting words in your mouth; maybe you aren't fully aware the effort it would take to ship millions of anything on such a short timescale without having the existing infrastructure to do it; especially if that infrastructure hasn't existed for a very long time. You are putting forth a very difficult problem very matter of factly.