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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: 0.001s | source
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shin_lao ◴[15 Apr 25 14:05 UTC] No.43692873[source]▶
Doesn't mean we shouldn't do it.
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nathan_compton ◴[15 Apr 25 14:06 UTC] No.43692887[source]▶
Well, sure, but perhaps some kind of plan is warranted?
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throwawaymaths ◴[15 Apr 25 14:07 UTC] No.43692899[source]▶
Isn't the point of capitalism to not have a plan and let the market figure it out?
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1. bluGill ◴[15 Apr 25 15:15 UTC] No.43694005[source]▶
The point of Capitalism is Marx needed a straw man to tear down. The world has never seen what he envisioned.

What you might call capitalists very much plan. They don't believe in central planning where one "guy" makes a plans and everyone else implements them, but they do plan.

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2. SideburnsOfDoom ◴[15 Apr 25 15:19 UTC] No.43694060[source]▶
> they do plan.

I've just sat through a long meeting with lots of Jiras and Q2 objectives. Trust me, there's planning. Lots of planning.

3. nahuel0x ◴[16 Apr 25 12:52 UTC] No.43704854[source]▶
Marx never said that capitalists didn't plan. In fact, the possibility of the transition from late stage capitalism/imperialism to socialism is based on that very fact, capital got concentrated in very big companies with internal planification. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_People%27s_Republic_of_Wal...