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.
Who is buying toys? Children have exactly one toy (their iPad), I don't know what other market could exist for them.
The expansions to the plant were directly due to Trump. They knew tarrifs were coming. They want to keep their operations in the US fully to shield themselves for that.
Even at that, they don’t HAVE to build the factory. They can put bids for subcontractors and fill up the struggling mom and pop type places, for a lot of things
This is pure speculation. We realized how fucked we were in 2020 when chips stopped flowing out of Taiwan. Taiwan realized how fucked they were when China began seriously rumbling about retaking the island again. They started building in 2021.
Democrats and rinos being in charge has been detrimental to society
My nephew has been an autistic video game obsessed retard for much of his life. Due to masculine influences around him, he grew up and is a mechanic
