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Was "Has no manufacturing culture" already a thing in the late 80s? I know the car industry got hit pretty hard by the Japanese during the 80s, but was it alrea
by ferguess_k 2y ago
Was "Has no manufacturing culture" already a thing in the late 80s? I know the car industry got hit pretty hard by the Japanese during the 80s, but was it already far ahead the US for electronics during the same era?
- DrillShopper 2y agoVery much so. They invested in their electronics manufacturing (both public and private investment) and went from the laughing stock of quality to the premium quality choice. This country could have done that, but even in the 1980s, we were on the path to no longer building things here.
- ferguess_k 2y agoThanks. I wonder how the US can bring the culture back. Or at least part of it.
- threeseed 2y agoDo the complete opposite of what Trump is doing. More immigration. More free trade. More education. Push US higher up the stack so that's its building on top of Chinese parts rather than trying to replicate them.
- bag_boy 2y agoArtificially prop up the salaries, fed and state investment in training, free training…basically incentives from government entities with deep pockets. It will happen soon. If you work with state innovation departments in small states, you can see them souring on SAAS. It’s going to swing to manufacturing.
- cowfarts 2y ago[dead]
- SirFatty 2y agoPeople are interchanging manufacturing and quality. There was a huge quality issue in the US.
- nickff 2y agoThe US auto industry got hurt because the 'big three' operated like an oligopoly, with the United Auto Workers (UAW) acting as the coordinating organization (and reaping most of the 'monopoly rents'). The Japanese were able to disrupt the oligopoly because they weren't beholden to the UAW; many studies were done, and some found that the American companies' costs were simply higher than the Japanese's (due to both direct labor costs, and other costs related to their CBA), so the Japanese could either make cheaper cars, or higher quality cars for the same price as the big three.
- hollerith 2y agoCBA == collective bargaining agreement
- Maxamillion96 2y ago>“We don’t have a manufacturing culture,” Mr. Gassée said of the nation’s high-technology heartland, “meaning the substrate, the schooling, the apprentices, the subcontractors.” Silicon Valley still doesnt have any of those.
- ferguess_k 2y agoI guess SV is simply to expensive to have those.