In the process of so much manufacturing moving overseas, a whole lot of Americans clearly lost any comprehension whatsoever of how supply chains or manufacturing even works. Which explains a lot about why nobody seems to understand why fast fashion can't be so cheap without sweatshops.
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Everyone needing architects, or subcontractors, or electricians, or even laborers, at the same time.
And frankly if you built and trained all that was needed, in 10 years you'd be complaining about how those jobs are gone because no one is building new plants anymore. And how hard it is to sell concrete because no one is building.
It doesn't cover where the raw materials come from or how the machines and tools that make the factory work are made. 1/
It doesn't take long to work your way into hundreds of different interdependent businesses and livelihoods from what seems like a simple thing, a wooden spoon. 4/
Everything is going to be affected.
https://youtu.be/67tHtpac5ws?si=6K0zoE3P5FK8nrsh
https://www.nord-lock.com/en-in/learnings/knowledge/2018/the-making-of-bolts/#:~:text=Cold%20forging%20%2D%20Molding%20the%20steel,extreme%20heat%20to%20harden%20steel.
What we WANTED was cheaper food and lower rents, affordable homes, and universal healthcare.
Point is, the choice between neoliberal globe-trading and jackass-stunt protectionism is a false dichotomy. Bringing manufacturing back to America means investing in American workers. And that's the ONE thing the broligarchs refuse to allow.
More to the point: Europe spends WAY less on housing and healthcare. Neither of which has anything to do with trade policy.
“So it hasn’t been the steel city for decades…”
He had to explain a bunch and the guy was dumbfounded. They currently get their steel from Germany and it’s refined in North Carolina.
Read a news article interviewing a medium-sized manu company owner about Trump tariffs and thought "wow, only 2?"
“It’s going to be so much better when all the manufacturing starts up in a couple of months.”
A couple of months. Exact words; I wrote down the convo later.
Delusional.
Stupid.
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One thing I've learned is that humans are exceptionally easy to train and that *looks* like intelligence, but they can't actually apply that training outside of the context it was given.
He literally cannot connect the dots.
1) pre-planning, deciding if a plant makes sense, if tariffs will last, if you want to build in the us, what you'd produce, are you confident in profitability margins, is your business growing, is the economy growing.
Hire consultants, to double chec
3) find a site. With labor. Roads you can move goods on, access to bimodal transport.