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America underestimates the difficulty of bringing manufacturing back

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842 points putzdown | 1 comments | 15 Apr 25 13:50 UTC | HN request time: 0.293s | source
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stronglikedan ◴[15 Apr 25 14:16 UTC] No.43693060[source]▶
I don't think anyone underestimates that, as much as some people with the author's viewpoints would like it to be true.

To paraphrase Kennedy: "We choose to [bring back manufacturing]. We choose to [bring back manufacturing] in this [or the next] decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win, and the others, too."

We will do it, and we will win, whatever that means.

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1. podgorniy ◴[15 Apr 25 15:01 UTC] No.43693751[source]▶
> To paraphrase Kennedy

What in the modern situation suggests the comparable level of diligence in approach to the goal? The fact that both goals are far-reaching does not suggest comparability of approaches to the solution.

Changing the way society/economy operates is nowhere near "building X," whatever X is, whether it's something hard like a bomb or a collider.

> We will do it, and we will win, whatever that means.

How do you know that you haven't won already? Shouldn't the end goal be clear? In the case of Kennedy you're referring to, criteria and motivation were clear.

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To a non-US bystander, your comment sounds like a no-thinking patriotic slogan. The details of the article are such that you can take any argument and bring it into discussion in order to show its irrelevance. But we're discussing slogans irrelevant to the situation and belief in the win, even though the win is not defined.