Comment by alkonaut
15 days ago
Whether one umbrella factory moves from China to the US within this election cycle doesn't really make a dent. The moving of industry from the US happened over decades, and was hand-in-hand with the US making fewer umbrellas and more computer programs, satellites, and microchips. Moving basic manufacturing of low value goods to the US would cannibalize the capacity of producing higher value goods. And none of it will be noticeable while Trump is still alive.
Hard to say re: labor cannibalization - if you are sociopathic about the labor force like Trump is, all these fentanyl deaths are just spare capacity that didn’t have an input interface and should have been in a factory.
1930's Gulags, in other words. The productivity of the unwilling and unskilled workforce, as well as the quality of their output, has been horrendous. The only thing the camps were good at were rapidly reducing the numbers of "undesirables".