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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: 0s | 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. constantcrying ◴[15 Apr 25 15:52 UTC] No.43694618[source]▶
How many additional hours are Americans going to work? What pay cuts will they take? How many years later du they want to retire?

These are the questions people need to ask themselves. We both know what the answer is.

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2. pjc50 ◴[15 Apr 25 16:06 UTC] No.43694841[source]▶
Americans need to take pay cuts so we can bring back high-paying manufacturing jobs!

/sarcasm, or summary of other discourse in this thread?

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3. constantcrying ◴[15 Apr 25 16:12 UTC] No.43694935[source]▶
High paying manufacturing jobs seems entirely delusional. If you want to compete with China your workers must be as efficient as Chinese workers, so US manufacturing workers can't be better paid and doing less hours. That can not possibly work.