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We're more likely to 'on shore' with 3D printer like automated fabricators (think next baby step between CnC machines and Replicators). As far as any mention o

We're more likely to 'on shore' with 3D printer like automated fabricators (think next baby step between CnC machines and Replicators). As far as any mention of jobs? Those are long gone and never coming back. Trade still makes sense for raw inputs and any outputs though.

hooverd 2y ago
Yea, they're not talking about high value manufacturing. They practically want to burn that down; it's all about bringing low value textile production back.
dylan604 2y ago
Even Navarro (or is it that other guy who's name refuses to stick in my brain) that admits that the jobs they want to take out of China (screwing in many tiny screws) will not be jobs in the US but automated factories. So it's not a jobs program they are pushing. It's having manufacturing on local soil and less money going offshore. This is not something they mentioned during the campaign, but are saying it now. During the campaign it was all about those manufacturing jobs.
- 9rx 2y ago
  What really stood out to me is that they say the factories will produce their own power on-site, with approvals for power plants happening "faster than we've ever had before", because the grid is "at risk of bombings". Which suggests to me that it not just about having manufacturing local for the sake of it being local or to stop money going offshore, but because it is preparing for war.
  - dylan604 2y ago
    Then they are playing the long con in expecting to not have to vacate at the end of the term as there is no way that enough manufacturing returns to be local with the ability make enough of anything in the time span of this single term
    - 9rx 2y ago
      > expecting to not have to vacate at the end of the term Perhaps that's exactly where the need is foreseen? Such a takeover would assuredly lead to a bout of violent conflict, that very well could lead to all out civil war if not managed well. You wouldn't need the kind of manufacturing required to take on the world, but you'd need a little bit to keep the people at bay. Americans with manufacturing facilities might not be so friendly after that kind of stunt, but if you can make new friends from abroad with facilities on US soil...
  - pseudalopex 2y ago
    > What really stood out to me is that they say the factories will produce their own power on-site, with approvals for power plants happening "faster than we've ever had before", because the grid is "at risk of bombings". Where can I read about this?
    - 9rx 2y ago
      Right here.
      - pseudalopex 2y ago
        The article? It did not contain the quoted strings. Your comment? An anonymous HN comment is not a suitable source.
        9rx 2y ago
        Article? It came to me by way of a video of it being said (by Trump, if that wasn't clear). You're looking at the only article I know of. If the content on HN isn't to you liking, that's fine, but, uh, why are you wasting your time reading stuff you don't like? You do realize that you don't have to be here, right?
inerte 2y ago
And since when the US has a “job availability” problem? Unemployment is low. We have a jobs quality problem. Good pay, good hours, benefits. It doesn’t matter if it’s manufacturing or services. Somehow some people think their parents had it easier working for a factory, but a lot of blood and sweat went to get that. We can shed blood and sweat to get better barista jobs too. It’s not about where jobs are performed.
- sharemywin 2y ago
  the things that made a factory job good are long gone too. pensions. stable employment. companies that cared about their employees.
- h2zizzle 2y ago
  Agreed. I'd go so far as to say that the compensation/job quality balance has been out-of-wack for years. It has never been about skill, either, but leverage. And even "unskilled" workers can conjure leverage by creating chokepoints that they can toll, if they're able to organize and hold out. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43604145 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43604145
- fragmede 2y ago
  https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTjJgfspg/ https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTjJgfspg/ shows it all too well. Except that people liked those jobs because they were doable for people who aren't bright enough to write code. If you're not the brightest tool in the toolbox, and not the most professional, and have a criminal record, you still need a job, and the trades are open for business. Amazon warehouses skill level, without the dystopia. I'm sure I'll do fine, it's my friends who have been underemployed for decades that aren't as bright who don't have a career to speak of that feel helpless and disempowered. Some of them voted for him. I can't say I don't see where they're coming from.
  - watwut 2y ago
    Again, America had low unemployment. And low level blue color job can be aw much dystopia as warehouse - your not bright person with criminal record an no skills will be taken advantage as much.
nradov 2y ago
3D printing (additive manufacturing) isn't really a differentiating factor one way or the other. It's only economically viable for certain types of parts made in relatively low volume. And the USA doesn't have much of a comparative advantage. There will never be anything like a "replicator". It's not physically possible.

hooverd 2y ago

Yea, they're not talking about high value manufacturing. They practically want to burn that down; it's all about bringing low value textile production back.

dylan604 2y ago

Even Navarro (or is it that other guy who's name refuses to stick in my brain) that admits that the jobs they want to take out of China (screwing in many tiny screws) will not be jobs in the US but automated factories. So it's not a jobs program they are pushing. It's having manufacturing on local soil and less money going offshore. This is not something they mentioned during the campaign, but are saying it now. During the campaign it was all about those manufacturing jobs.

9rx 2y ago
What really stood out to me is that they say the factories will produce their own power on-site, with approvals for power plants happening "faster than we've ever had before", because the grid is "at risk of bombings". Which suggests to me that it not just about having manufacturing local for the sake of it being local or to stop money going offshore, but because it is preparing for war.
- dylan604 2y ago
  Then they are playing the long con in expecting to not have to vacate at the end of the term as there is no way that enough manufacturing returns to be local with the ability make enough of anything in the time span of this single term
  - 9rx 2y ago
    > expecting to not have to vacate at the end of the term Perhaps that's exactly where the need is foreseen? Such a takeover would assuredly lead to a bout of violent conflict, that very well could lead to all out civil war if not managed well. You wouldn't need the kind of manufacturing required to take on the world, but you'd need a little bit to keep the people at bay. Americans with manufacturing facilities might not be so friendly after that kind of stunt, but if you can make new friends from abroad with facilities on US soil...
- pseudalopex 2y ago
  > What really stood out to me is that they say the factories will produce their own power on-site, with approvals for power plants happening "faster than we've ever had before", because the grid is "at risk of bombings". Where can I read about this?
  - 9rx 2y ago
    Right here.
    - pseudalopex 2y ago
      The article? It did not contain the quoted strings. Your comment? An anonymous HN comment is not a suitable source.
      - 9rx 2y ago
        Article? It came to me by way of a video of it being said (by Trump, if that wasn't clear). You're looking at the only article I know of. If the content on HN isn't to you liking, that's fine, but, uh, why are you wasting your time reading stuff you don't like? You do realize that you don't have to be here, right?

inerte 2y ago

And since when the US has a “job availability” problem? Unemployment is low. We have a jobs quality problem. Good pay, good hours, benefits. It doesn’t matter if it’s manufacturing or services. Somehow some people think their parents had it easier working for a factory, but a lot of blood and sweat went to get that. We can shed blood and sweat to get better barista jobs too. It’s not about where jobs are performed.

sharemywin 2y ago
the things that made a factory job good are long gone too. pensions. stable employment. companies that cared about their employees.
h2zizzle 2y ago
Agreed. I'd go so far as to say that the compensation/job quality balance has been out-of-wack for years. It has never been about skill, either, but leverage. And even "unskilled" workers can conjure leverage by creating chokepoints that they can toll, if they're able to organize and hold out. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43604145 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43604145
fragmede 2y ago
https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTjJgfspg/ https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTjJgfspg/ shows it all too well. Except that people liked those jobs because they were doable for people who aren't bright enough to write code. If you're not the brightest tool in the toolbox, and not the most professional, and have a criminal record, you still need a job, and the trades are open for business. Amazon warehouses skill level, without the dystopia. I'm sure I'll do fine, it's my friends who have been underemployed for decades that aren't as bright who don't have a career to speak of that feel helpless and disempowered. Some of them voted for him. I can't say I don't see where they're coming from.
- watwut 2y ago
  Again, America had low unemployment. And low level blue color job can be aw much dystopia as warehouse - your not bright person with criminal record an no skills will be taken advantage as much.

nradov 2y ago

3D printing (additive manufacturing) isn't really a differentiating factor one way or the other. It's only economically viable for certain types of parts made in relatively low volume. And the USA doesn't have much of a comparative advantage. There will never be anything like a "replicator". It's not physically possible.