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We’re a fading manufacturing power and corporate profit-maximization since the 80s has made things very brittle. The most obvious example for HN is semiconducto
by acdha 6mo ago
We’re a fading manufacturing power and corporate profit-maximization since the 80s has made things very brittle. The most obvious example for HN is semiconductors but there are many other things which we either don’t make in sufficient quantity at all or which have significant dependencies on countries like China. In a war, it doesn’t help, if, say your factory is in Utah when it depends on Chinese rare earth until someone spends 5-10 years getting a new mining & refining supply chain online.
- bluGill 6mo agoA global supply chain does not say anything about our manufacturing power.
- acdha 6mo agoIt does if you’ve read anything about how much of China’s advantage is colocation and integration: those long supply chains add delay and cost. Apple rather famously had problems manufacturing the MacPro in Texas not because of anything exotic but from challenges getting basic things like screws which were easily available near their factories in China.