Liveleak bros, we're eatin' good tonight!
Fellow 1999 Zoomer here; yeah there is a world of difference between Zoomers born before and after 2000 in how they behave and present themselves to others. I'm similar to you in that my first OS was Windows XP on my father's computer, which I slowly but surely took over because he rarely used it. I remember Liveleak as well.
Notice I said industrial CNC machines, the kind used for mass-production. We're talking about mass production, not a specialty shop with two machines that can maybe do three custom parts a week for $15k apiece. Those exist and that's already a healthy business. Plants that can produce 10,000 of those parts a week - like is done in Asia and we're dreaming about bringing to the US - would easily be billion-dollar plants in the US and *might* directly employ 500 people.
Those old computers taught patience. No, everything wasn't laid out in a ergonomic manner. There is no user manual. Youtube doesn't exist yet to tell you how to troubleshoot. It is an arcane magic box. Figure it the fuck out.
I have two anecdotes. The first is from when I was in college, and met a black dude from DRC. Christian, sweet, gentle, studying to be a doctor so he can go back to DRC and help make the lives of his people better. Very intelligent, multilingual, hard working, just all around a great human being.
Mass production refers to volume. You can mass produce with haas cnc mills. Buy more as you onboard people to run them. The type of machine you’re talking about costing a million dollars is more like the DOMESTICALLY MANUFACTURED equipment MAG makes, which is for speciality shit like ship building. We can’t really outsource naval shipbuilding, and that’s an entirely different issue
OK you really got me there. $25 billion for a plant it is then. My mistake.
As someone who has ins with Toy Manufacturing including those who are contracted by Sideshow Collectibles, Hot Toys etc. I can confirm as well that, injection molding has come a long way.
Why are you such an insistent doomer about it? Like I’ve mentioned before, declining manufacturing hurts wage growth across the entire economy, which you can see by comparing that in 1980 the median household income was $20k and the median home price was $40k. Now the median household income is $80k and the median home price is $400k, so home price outgrew wages 2.5 times
Only the largest and most powerful of corpos ie Apple actually have the ability to wait out Blumpf. 99% of them can't survive four years of stagnant growth and gimped profits.
They'll go broke. There's also a not insignificant chance Vance gets in in 4 years and continues the Tarrifs.
The ones that can wait out Trump are in the minority, many companies can't do that. They're also betting on tariffs not lasting after Trump which can backfire.
Even the ones that can don't WANT to. It's a pretty shitty thing to tell your shareholders that profits are down because you won't build one fucking factory to get around these pesky tarrifs
It's interesting that despite body doubles being used for practically the entire time goverments have been around, it is implausible for so many today that they are still in use despite seeing people looks very different on different days and at times being the wrong height.
Shareholders are the least likely to sign off on building a 2 billion dollar manufacturing plant if the chances are in 3 year or so, the cost of outsourcing them goes back down. They know labor is the largest expense and American labor is some of the most expensive.
Many already have. Apple has, TMSC, Honda, need I go on?
To be fair if it is better for shareholders for them to not build factories, then by law they are compelled to do that. A big win would be repealing the precedent set by Dodge v. Ford Motor Co. let a company invest in itself over having to pay shareholders, yeah it'd affect me as well as I benefit from them putting shareholders first but I'd rather the company I invested in still exist beyond my lifetime.
They don't even have to wait for a new President. Three days seems to be enough for the current one to flip. The necessary investments are not going to be made without ironclad commitments to stick to it.
I don't understand why people keep bringing up TSMC in the context of Tariffs enabling US manufacturing. All this shit you mentioned was long before Tariffs became a shiny new toy and was the result of other government backed industrialization efforts.
