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America underestimates the difficulty of bringing manufacturing back

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842 points putzdown | 3 comments | 15 Apr 25 13:50 UTC | HN request time: 0.026s | source
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ChrisMarshallNY ◴[15 Apr 25 14:13 UTC] No.43692996[source]▶
This pretty much mirrors what a friend of mine said (he is a recently-retired Co-CEO of a medium-sized manufacturing business).

He's been telling me this, for years. It's not a secret. The information has been out there, for ages. I'm surprised that the administration didn't understand this.

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nine_zeros ◴[15 Apr 25 14:15 UTC] No.43693033[source]▶
> I'm surprised that the administration didn't understand this.

Curious why you are surprised at incompetence being unable to understand complexity.

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ChrisMarshallNY ◴[15 Apr 25 14:16 UTC] No.43693061[source]▶
Fair point. :/

My friend is watching his business get ready to die. His wife is still the CEO, and she's losing her shit. They're not alone. There's thousands and thousands of similar operations, all over the US, that will have to shut down, if something doesn't give.

I guess the mega-rich oligarchs think this is great, but they don't employ the majority of Americans.

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1. pjc50 ◴[15 Apr 25 14:36 UTC] No.43693380{3}[source]▶
> They're not alone. There's thousands and thousands of similar operations, all over the US, that will have to shut down, if something doesn't give.

I wonder where they were on election day, when they had a choice. The record of business owners voting D is .. not great.

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2. bluGill ◴[15 Apr 25 14:43 UTC] No.43693478[source]▶
D has not been a good choice for small business either.
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3. pjc50 ◴[15 Apr 25 15:17 UTC] No.43694036[source]▶
The electoral Monty Hall problem offered people a choice of two boxes, and we can all see what's in the one they picked.