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> ...This is level of efficiency used to belong to the US. I doubt that.
by markdown 4y ago
> ...This is level of efficiency used to belong to the US.
I doubt that.
- hintymad 4y agoRelatively speaking? In WWII, the US produced 300K planes, 130 carriers, 80 tanks every day on average, increased its steel output to 80M tons in 1944 alone, more than other countries combined. And hundreds of destroyers, corvettes, and submarines. Not that we need to do the same now, but it shows that how capable the US manufacturing industry can be.
- zx8080 4y agoWas that ability a result of the recent Great Depression and desperate needs of workers?
- nine_k 4y agoMore like colossal wartime spending. A fighting army (and navy, and airforce) is one hell of a market; they almost always would like more than you can manufacture.
- markdown 4y agoI said nothing about how capable US manufacturing was or is. I was addressing the point that you China could hire 8000 new workers overnight. > In WWII, the US produced 300K planes, 130 carriers, 80 tanks every day on average, increased its steel output to 80M tons in 1944 alone, more than other countries combined At what cost? What did that labour pool stop producing in order to produce machines of war?
- hintymad 4y agoThe entire nation was mobilized for war, so the cost was high for sure. My point was that the US then could produce so much because their manufacturing sector was amazingly strong -- the same reason that Yamamoto Isoroku predicted, years before the US turned into a war machine, that Japan would lose to the US.