> On the one hand, I’m pretty sure that enough money could and would be thrown at the problem to solve it. I'm skeptical that this is the case. Supply chains

> On the one hand, I’m pretty sure that enough money could and would be thrown at the problem to solve it. I'm skeptical that this is the case. Supply chains for goods have become much more intricate than they were a hundred years ago and America has completely ceded them to China. At the same time by ceding these supply chains America has let manufacturing skill sets completely atrophy and with it has seen the evaporation of institutional knowledge necessary to train new generations of blue collar workers necessary to scale up manufacturing. This isn't even a 'nine people can't make a baby in one month' type scenario, this is more like 'we just plum forgot how to make babies' scenario which is disconcerting to say the least.