I thought about creating a thread for this. It probably deserves it's own thread but I don't want the thread police to bitch about a thread and not talk about the actual content.
I've said it before. I work for a company who manufacturers a product, and expensive ass product--about $3.5M per unit. We also sell and manufacture/assemble a majority of the parts used to service the hundreds of parts in that product. We own about 70% of the market for that product line and own almost the same market share for parts sold to service that product.
The majority of things that we "manufacture", we don't really manufacture. We either have them made internationally, a ton from China, or have the sub-components made international and we just assemble the product in the US. The actual product is made from thousands of parts made from all over the world. We simply do not have the machinery, tooling, and expertise to have all that shit made in the US. I haven't discussed cost because that's a HUGE reason it's made elsewhere.
Anyway, I found this video summarizes the challenges of manufacturing in the US, how we got here, and how it's going to be a LONG term fix. It takes YEARS to set up a plant, to make the machinery, to develop the processes, to develop the tooling, to train the workers, to build the IT systems to assist production but to also manage quality. This is why people who understand manufacturing realize what a fucking shitshow it is to use tariffs to incentivize manufacturing to the US. All it's going to do is cause everyday people huge increases in costs for a solution which is going to take a long ass time to deliver, much longer than a president's 4 years.
We should move manufacturing back to the US. Using tariffs to drive that is like taking a jackhammer to perform oral surgery. This administration only knows to use a jackhammer to try to solve everything.
If you don't read any of the above, watch the video. It's about trying to manufature/assemble a part from USA goods and labor.
Spoiler: It costs $75 versus $10-30 brushes made in China/elsewhere. Multiply this issue times 1000 extending to everyday shit that you buy from tools to groceries to pharmacy. Are you, your neighbors, you family going to pay 3-5X the price just to buy an American made product. Walmart semi tried this. It didn't work out for US made products. We need leadership from the government to help, similar to what was done for semiconductors and chips.
BTW I love this channel. If you don't regularly watch, you should. It's a great channel.