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The US doesn't have sufficient supply of manufacturing skills to do this. Maybe Framework could, but there isn't capacity for most manufacturing of products to
by danpalmer 2y ago
The US doesn't have sufficient supply of manufacturing skills to do this. Maybe Framework could, but there isn't capacity for most manufacturing of products to move to US assembly. You also can't underestimate the difficulty of that training, it's not just training the workers doing the final assembly, it's the entire org chart being built around manufacturing. China and Taiwan (for consumer electronics) have decades of recent experience in doing this and have highly optimised processes, the US has never had these skills at the volume that Asia does currently, and the last time it was remotely close was decades ago.
If the US decided that the 20-year priority was to be great at manufacturing then sure, it could probably get back to being world-class at this, but there's a reason why countries typically progress out of being manufacturing economies into being service economies – it's just a worse business to be in.