Comment by shortrounddev2
Comment by shortrounddev2 2 days ago
I think politicians hook onto manufacturing as an ideal of an industry which should pay well and has a low barrier to entry. If manufacturing grew 15% every year but employed 15% fewer people every year due to automation, it would be considered a catastrophe.
The reason most people want more manufacturing in the US is because they want manufacturing jobs. It is only within the last few years since the pandemic that we started to care about domestic manufacturing as a matter of national security
The real benefit of local manufacturing is that it makes related industries dramatically more efficient. For example electronics in the pearl river delta. You can buy everything locally and get prototypes in hours.