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Well China did build that capability from scratch over ~50 years; the US does have the advantage that it probably has most of the experience...somewhere; what i
by trebligdivad 2y ago
Well China did build that capability from scratch over ~50 years; the US does have the advantage that it probably has most of the experience...somewhere; what it needs if it really wants to do it is pull all that together into something streamlined and build up capacity in those bits it doesn't have much of.
(Not that I'm saying this crazy sudden tariff mechanism is a good way to get that to happen; heck even if you wanted to do it, you wouldn't have to dump the entire lot on everyone in one day)
- bamboozled 2y agoAt this rate of economic and market turmoil, you’d need to have the Chinese manufacturing capability domestically by the end of the week for this to make sense?
- philistine 2y agoWhat was it that the US was making in the 80s that consumers want now? Even if we could magically resurrect American manufacturing, the world has moved on.
- trebligdivad 2y agoOh I suspect the US has most modern manufacturing somewhere in small quantities, for more specialist uses - I agree you don't want to resurrect the 1980s stuff.
- seanmcdirmid 2y agoMaybe if we imported Chinese engineers and factory tech (along with German engineers and tech), we could do this quickly. But we would also have to prioritize a huge outlay in building factories infrastructure, and when done…we still wouldn’t have enough poorly educated women to staff these factories (who typically staff these factories in Asia, so maybe we import lots of Chinese robots as well?).
- insane_dreamer 2y ago> did build that capability from scratch over ~50 years with a _huge_ amount of government "push", made possible because it wasn't a free market economy (and still is only partially so)