Exactly, this is a fantastic read on the subject. There’s also a prisoner’s dilemma scenario happening between all the companies. If one company were to reshore manufacturing then their input costs go up relative to their competitors making them unprofitable. So, unless all companies decided to reshore together it’s not really possible to bring manufacturing back. And even if a single state decided to force their companies to do this then they lose competitiveness with other capitalist states. This problem has no solution.
A healthy working class is necessary to deploying an effective fighting force in the 21st century:
The american oligarchy,by suppressing and breaking into a thousand pieces their industrial workforce, has doomed itself to be defeated in any conflict with a peer or near peer. Steel is the lifeblood of modern militaries.
Edit: I should mention the prison industrial complex which provides a significant portion of american military gear. but still, steel is a hard data point.
Exactly, this is a fantastic read on the subject. There’s also a prisoner’s dilemma scenario happening between all the companies. If one company were to reshore manufacturing then their input costs go up relative to their competitors making them unprofitable. So, unless all companies decided to reshore together it’s not really possible to bring manufacturing back. And even if a single state decided to force their companies to do this then they lose competitiveness with other capitalist states. This problem has no solution.
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A healthy working class is necessary to deploying an effective fighting force in the 21st century:
The american oligarchy,by suppressing and breaking into a thousand pieces their industrial workforce, has doomed itself to be defeated in any conflict with a peer or near peer. Steel is the lifeblood of modern militaries.
https://juanfitzcarraldo.substack.com/p/oligarchy-aristocracy-and-democracy
Edit: I should mention the prison industrial complex which provides a significant portion of american military gear. but still, steel is a hard data point.
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Not only in the XXI century, it was always so.