Molson Hart
Founder of the toy manufacturer Viahart; writes about manufacturing, importing and why bringing production back to America is harder than it sounds.
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Cheap labour is not the real reason the world's goods are made in China.
Yes, the labor is cheaper, but that’s not really why.
molsonhart.comSaid 25 Dec 2025This on korrents
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America has an excellent consumer supply chain and a weak industrial one, and having the first tells you nothing about having the second.
That’s because America has an amazing consumer supply chain, one of the best, if not the best in the world, but this is totally different from having an industrial supply chain.
molsonhart.comSaid 6 Apr 2025This on korrents
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Rebuilding American manufacturing is a decades-long educational and cultural project, not something tariffs can do.Their words
America needs an educational and cultural transformation to compete with China and reverse the decline in living standards that Americans have suffered over decades.
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Between 2015 and 2025 US manufacturing wages rose 40%, while the cost of purchasing a home rose 93%.
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Even so, the flexible adaptable human will be working in manufacturing (alongside machines) for decades to come.
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Yes, the labor is cheaper, but that’s not really why.
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Tariffs on imported components and machinery hurt the American manufacturers they are supposed to help.Their words
They applied the same tax to the components that you need to make things in America that they did to finished goods that were made outside of America.
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When the United States applied tariffs to China, it shifted huge amounts of manufacturing to Vietnam, which did not have tariffs applied to it.
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Uncertainty about how long a tariff will last, not the rate itself, is what stops anyone from building a factory.Their words
The tariffs have frozen business activity because no one wants to take a big risk dependent on a policy that may change next week.
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A humanoid robot is the wrong tool on a factory floor, because a machine specialised in the task beats it.Their words
They are not useful in industrial environments where, if a humanoid robot can do it, an industrial machine which is specialized in the task can do it even better.
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China already installs several times more industrial robots a year than the United States does, and cheaper ones.Their words
First, China, on a yearly basis installs 7x as many industrial robots as we do in the United States.
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Automation will not save us.
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It’s the work ethic, knowhow, commitment, combined with top notch infrastructure, that makes China the most powerful manufacturing country in the world today.
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Building a factory in America takes at least two years before it can open, and months more before it runs well.Their words
It takes at least, in the most favorable of jurisdictions, 2 years (if you can get the permits) to build a factory in the United States.
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Technological capability has to be practised to be kept: a country that stops making something forgets how.Their words
The people who knew how to build and repair molds have either passed away or are long retired.
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Money cannot buy back a manufacturing capability a country has lost, because what is missing is the knowhow.Their words
Even with infinite money, we cannot duplicate that, because we lack the knowhow.
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That’s because America has an amazing consumer supply chain, one of the best, if not the best in the world, but this is totally different from having an industrial supply chain.
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Cheap labour is not the real reason the world's goods are made in China.
Yes, the labor is cheaper, but that’s not really why.
Chinese Labor Isn't Just Cheaper; It’s Better. We Need to Fix That. Said 25 Dec 2025
Human workers will still be doing manufacturing alongside the machines for decades, so robots and AI will not settle the question of where things get made.
Even so, the flexible adaptable human will be working in manufacturing (alongside machines) for decades to come.
Chinese Labor Isn't Just Cheaper; It’s Better. We Need to Fix That. Said 25 Dec 2025
Chinese factory workers are more motivated than American ones because what they want has been getting cheaper against their wages while American housing has not.
Between 2015 and 2025 US manufacturing wages rose 40%, while the cost of purchasing a home rose 93%.
Chinese Labor Isn't Just Cheaper; It’s Better. We Need to Fix That. Said 25 Dec 2025
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Rebuilding American manufacturing is a decades-long educational and cultural project, not something tariffs can do.
America needs an educational and cultural transformation to compete with China and reverse the decline in living standards that Americans have suffered over decades.
Chinese Labor Isn't Just Cheaper; It’s Better. We Need to Fix That. Said 25 Dec 2025
America has an excellent consumer supply chain and a weak industrial one, and having the first tells you nothing about having the second.
That’s because America has an amazing consumer supply chain, one of the best, if not the best in the world, but this is totally different from having an industrial supply chain.
America Underestimates the Difficulty of Bringing Manufacturing Back Said 6 Apr 2025
Money cannot buy back a manufacturing capability a country has lost, because what is missing is the knowhow.
Even with infinite money, we cannot duplicate that, because we lack the knowhow.
America Underestimates the Difficulty of Bringing Manufacturing Back Said 6 Apr 2025
Technological capability has to be practised to be kept: a country that stops making something forgets how.
The people who knew how to build and repair molds have either passed away or are long retired.
America Underestimates the Difficulty of Bringing Manufacturing Back Said 6 Apr 2025
Building a factory in America takes at least two years before it can open, and months more before it runs well.
It takes at least, in the most favorable of jurisdictions, 2 years (if you can get the permits) to build a factory in the United States.
America Underestimates the Difficulty of Bringing Manufacturing Back Said 6 Apr 2025
China's manufacturing dominance rests on work ethic, knowhow and infrastructure rather than on low wages, because many countries pay less and cannot do it.
It’s the work ethic, knowhow, commitment, combined with top notch infrastructure, that makes China the most powerful manufacturing country in the world today.
America Underestimates the Difficulty of Bringing Manufacturing Back Said 6 Apr 2025
Industrial robots are not the fix for American manufacturing, and betting on automation misreads why production sits elsewhere.
Automation will not save us.
America Underestimates the Difficulty of Bringing Manufacturing Back Said 6 Apr 2025
China already installs several times more industrial robots a year than the United States does, and cheaper ones.
First, China, on a yearly basis installs 7x as many industrial robots as we do in the United States.
America Underestimates the Difficulty of Bringing Manufacturing Back Said 6 Apr 2025
A humanoid robot is the wrong tool on a factory floor, because a machine specialised in the task beats it.
They are not useful in industrial environments where, if a humanoid robot can do it, an industrial machine which is specialized in the task can do it even better.
America Underestimates the Difficulty of Bringing Manufacturing Back Said 6 Apr 2025
Uncertainty about how long a tariff will last, not the rate itself, is what stops anyone from building a factory.
The tariffs have frozen business activity because no one wants to take a big risk dependent on a policy that may change next week.
America Underestimates the Difficulty of Bringing Manufacturing Back Said 6 Apr 2025
The 2018 tariffs moved production to Vietnam rather than back to the United States.
When the United States applied tariffs to China, it shifted huge amounts of manufacturing to Vietnam, which did not have tariffs applied to it.
America Underestimates the Difficulty of Bringing Manufacturing Back Said 6 Apr 2025
Tariffs on imported components and machinery hurt the American manufacturers they are supposed to help.
They applied the same tax to the components that you need to make things in America that they did to finished goods that were made outside of America.
America Underestimates the Difficulty of Bringing Manufacturing Back Said 6 Apr 2025
American manufacturing output cannot meaningfully rise without first building large amounts of new electricity generation.
Without the construction of huge amounts of new energy infrastructure, like nuclear power plants, we cannot meaningfully increase our manufacturing output.
America Underestimates the Difficulty of Bringing Manufacturing Back Said 6 Apr 2025
American electricity generation per person has been flat since 2000 while China's has quadrupled, and manufacturing is why.
Since the year 2000, US electricity generation per person has been flat.
America Underestimates the Difficulty of Bringing Manufacturing Back Said 6 Apr 2025
Innovation depends on being near the factory floor; you cannot improve what is thirty hours of travel away.
When the factory floor is down the hall, instead of 30 hours of travel away, it’s easier to make improvements and invent.
America Underestimates the Difficulty of Bringing Manufacturing Back Said 6 Apr 2025
Every country that has succeeded at manufacturing set the conditions first and then moved slowly.
Every country that has gone on a brilliant run of manufacturing first established the right conditions and then proceeded slowly.
America Underestimates the Difficulty of Bringing Manufacturing Back Said 6 Apr 2025
America should issue manufacturing visas for knowhow rather than for labour.
Grant manufacturing visas, not for labor, but for knowhow.
America Underestimates the Difficulty of Bringing Manufacturing Back Said 6 Apr 2025
Having taken over the making of physical goods, Chinese firms are now moving up into designing, branding and selling them.
We are transitioning from a world where everything is made in China, to one where everything is designed and sold by China too.
Is China Taking Over US Retail? Said 16 Aug 2021
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Technological capability has to be practised to be kept: a country that stops making something forgets how. 2 hold this
The people who knew how to build and repair molds have either passed away or are long retired.
America Underestimates the Difficulty of Bringing Manufacturing Back Said 6 Apr 2025
Industrial robots are not the fix for American manufacturing, and betting on automation misreads why production sits elsewhere. 2 hold this
Automation will not save us.
America Underestimates the Difficulty of Bringing Manufacturing Back Said 6 Apr 2025
Tariffs on imported components and machinery hurt the American manufacturers they are supposed to help. 2 hold this
They applied the same tax to the components that you need to make things in America that they did to finished goods that were made outside of America.
America Underestimates the Difficulty of Bringing Manufacturing Back Said 6 Apr 2025
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