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From one piece Chinese Labor Isn't Just Cheaper; It’s Better. We Need to Fix That. 4 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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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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From one piece America Underestimates the Difficulty of Bringing Manufacturing Back 16 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Grant manufacturing visas, not for labor, but for knowhow.
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Every country that has succeeded at manufacturing set the conditions first and then moved slowly.Their words
Every country that has gone on a brilliant run of manufacturing first established the right conditions and then proceeded slowly.
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Innovation depends on being near the factory floor; you cannot improve what is thirty hours of travel away.Their words
When the factory floor is down the hall, instead of 30 hours of travel away, it’s easier to make improvements and invent.
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Since the year 2000, US electricity generation per person has been flat.
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Without the construction of huge amounts of new energy infrastructure, like nuclear power plants, we cannot meaningfully increase our manufacturing output.
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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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