Comment by nilkn

The reshoring efforts you're talking about will not come remotely close to restoring what was lost and what could have been. We're so far behind outside of software and finance it's almost unfathomable. To grasp the full cost that has been paid, you need to imagine a scenario like all of NYC, Seattle, Austin, Denver, Silicon Valley, San Francisco, etc., just don't exist at all. That kind of scale is what we've lost out on -- not in software, of course, but in most other industries.

Fly-over country should have been the site of the greatest industrial and manufacturing innovation the world has ever seen. We threw away one of the greatest opportunities in history to juice stocks for a couple decades.