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byquonset ( 4839537 ) writes:
I was waiting for something like this to happen. I give it until next week when the orange goon will "graciously" roll back more tariffs and give more exemptions.
The world needs these exotic components to keep running at this point in history. Any long-term disruption will have a far reaching effect on a wide range of industries.
This is what happens when you make things up as you go along because you have no idea what you're doing.
byDan East ( 318230 ) writes:
I was waiting for something like this to happen. I give it until next week
In the meantime the goal was achieved - Americans are talking about this issue (like here on Slashdot), politicians have been woken up to it again, and production in the USA can begin ramping back up.
bydrinkypoo ( 153816 ) writes:
In the meantime the goal was achieved - Americans are talking about this issue
Americans have never stopped talking about manufacturing in America, so that's bullshit.
Americans are also now talking about trade imbalances without understanding what they mean, just like you, was that the goal?
and production in the USA can begin ramping back up.
The reason it left was because wealthy people in charge decided it should leave. No amount of average Americans talking about it moves the needle in any direction because the wealthy don't give two shits about what we think. In fact, they give not even one shit.
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byjacks smirking reven ( 909048 ) writes:
Also this is just sortoff a fantasy playground for Americans, very telling in this poll that 80% of Americans say "America would be better off if more American's worked in manufacturing, however only 23% of those same Americans say they "would be better off if I worked in a factory" so everyone else should be turning the screws, but "not me, I like my high paying service job, that's for other folks"
Nostalgia for manufacturing will make the US poorer [ft.com]
byHiThere ( 15173 ) writes:
You can read it that way, or you can read it as "factories should be better places to work". I tend to read it the second way, but it results in the same observables.
byjacks smirking reven ( 909048 ) writes:
That's very charitable of you but I think that's straining credulity, do we have evidence of "I would give up my current job to work in a factory if conditions were better?" I mean only a minority percentage of American's even have context to say that, how many of us have "worked in a factory" to speak about conditions first hand?
I think the underlying answer you are surmising is "I would work in a factory if they paid me enough" which means this isn't about manufacturing at all, it's about wages.
byHiThere ( 15173 ) writes:
Not with the current conditions. But those need to be changed.
OTOH, it would take long enough that they WILL be changed...just in unpredictable ways.
byjacks smirking reven ( 909048 ) writes:
Yeah I suppose this is also confounded by our own subjective interpretation of "factory", like a textile mill or metal forge and a chip fab and a say the Starret Tool Factory [youtube.com] (This is a cool tour video of something the USA makes and excels at) are all factories but are all very different experiences with their own challenges.
byHiThere ( 15173 ) writes:
Well, my interpretation of "factory" is shaped by briefly working in a cannery multiple decades ago.
byjacks smirking reven ( 909048 ) writes:
See, now that I imagine is a "factory" like a straight up episode of How It's Made and I bet it's hot and full of OSHA violations.
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