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I 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
by markdown 4y ago
I 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.