Comment by knallfrosch
Comment by knallfrosch 3 days ago
Do you think manufacturing pagers in Lebanon is a viable alternative?
Comment by knallfrosch 3 days ago
Do you think manufacturing pagers in Lebanon is a viable alternative?
Unthinkable, or at least not feasible, in the sense of supporting the current level of technological advancement and average quality of life in many countries.
lebanon has an economy that's currently in shambles, and its never been known for its productive capacity. even if they wanted to start making simple comms devices it might rely on infrastructure that they can't invest in, and take tech/capital they have not accumulated
it would be more realistic for them to receive it from the iran but there might be political hurdles to this and it would end up costing the iranians as hezbollah can't be expected to pay much for it
100 years ago there were no pagers or mobile phones I guess, or any other kind of modern advanced tech.
No, there were engines that were capable of flight, guns capable of rapid fire, television technology and radios.
That was "advanced modern technology" then, and as the passage of time has marched forward, what we consider modern changes - so what's your point?
How many of TVs were there back then? I can tell you that very few in my country, now everybody has a smartphone.
Also I can tell you, no airplanes or TVs were built in my country either. They never were, 100 years ago, 50, 20 or nowadays.
So when you said “The idea of the majority of manufacturing being external to a country” you must have meant the US.
I meant the UK.
Domestic production of goods such as televisions, radios and even extremely high technology such as tractors has been declining since the 70's.
If you go far enough back (100y or so) then "imported" usually referred to raw materials, spices or very exotic equipment such as furniture - the supply chain and tooling was mostly domestic.
Undoubtedly, this attack has proven that it certainly is, at whatever cost.
The initial objection was the lack of sufficient size or institutional robustness for indigenous manufacturing capacity. I addressed that.
The question of the integrity and trustworthiness of a collective bloc structure had occurred. It's another factor, and of course poses its own challenges. Then again, the Western bloc, most capable of the set, seems to have persistent issues along those lines already. Several of Israeli origin, as it happens. (Though of course not solely.)
The idea of the majority of manufacturing being external to a country is a little under 100 years old, yet people talk as if it is unthinkable.