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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: 0.221s | source
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lenerdenator ◴[15 Apr 25 14:15 UTC] No.43693034[source]▶
America?

No.

The shareholder class underestimates it.

A lot of Americans realize that it's going to be hard, which is why we should have made an example out of the first guy to profit off of sending manufacturing off to the shores of a geopolitical rival.

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knowaveragejoe ◴[15 Apr 25 14:20 UTC] No.43693134[source]▶
Americans also have more free time and disposable income because of that decision, among others. Why would you want them to struggle more?
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lenerdenator ◴[15 Apr 25 14:24 UTC] No.43693206[source]▶
The people in the areas where things used to be made certainly have more free time, but they don't have disposable income.

Unless we're just here to repeat canards from the 1990s given by financiers which explained why it was good to shut down the main employers for entire towns.

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ZeroGravitas ◴[15 Apr 25 16:13 UTC] No.43694955[source]▶
It's odd how little factories moving from union areas to red states gets mentioned in this context.

Areas gutted, jobs lost and some lesser number of jobs with less benefits and pay created elsewhere.

So many political ideas seem to only be allowed to be discussed if you can add a garnish of racism or xenophobia to them.

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1. themaninthedark ◴[16 Apr 25 17:22 UTC] No.43707991[source]▶
Boeing started a plant in SC: https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/jun/10/boeing-open...

Then later moved all 787 production there: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24544139 https://www.thestranger.com/slog/2020/09/09/44441906/the-dea...

While the main articles seemed to have a good riddance tone, the HN comment section seemed to be more restricted in that view.

>It's hard to believe that the current Boeing leadership will turn things around with even less focus on quality and talented workers. Feels like they should be moving back towards engineering driven approaches.