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   From: ldo@nz.invalid   
      
   On Tue, 22 Oct 2024 20:19:57 -0400, CrudeSausage wrote:   
      
   > On 2024-10-22 7:57 p.m., Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:   
   >> On Tue, 22 Oct 2024 19:36:08 -0400, CrudeSausage wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> On 2024-10-22 4:47 p.m., Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:   
   >>>> On Tue, 22 Oct 2024 08:32:13 -0400, bad sector wrote:   
   >>>>   
   >>>>> It's time for HW manufacturing (all development AND actual   
   >>>>> production) to return to the USA/CXanada and Europe.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> It went away in the first place because it could not be done cost-   
   >>>> effectively in those “first-world” countries -- basic free-market   
   >>>> capitalism in action.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> To bring it back would require Government subsidies, or forcing   
   >>>> customers to pay more. Which would you prefer?   
   >>>   
   >>> Considering the largest market for those products is the West,   
   >>> particularly the United States, it would be possible to bring back   
   >>> manufacturing by blocking sales of products that don't have a presence   
   >>> in North America.   
   >>   
   >> Easy way around that: set up an empty office like those in East Texas   
   >> to get jurisdiction under the patent-friendly courts there. There’s   
   >> your “presence”. Business continues from overseas as usual.   
   >>   
   >> What’s your next move?   
   >   
   > A manufacturing presence. The company would have to produce whatever it   
   > sells on the continent it is selling to.   
      
   How much of it? Disassembled parts? Or all the way back to raw ore?   
      
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