From: liz@poppyrecords.invalid.invalid
Don Y wrote:
> I fully expect this to happen during Trump's administration.
> He probably realizes he won't be able to do anything about it,
> especially after his designs on other foreign countries and
> alienation of his main allies.
>
> ["No, you haven't been ATTACKED by China so Article 5 doesn't
> require us to come to your aid..."]
>
> Of course, more and more manufacturing is TRYING to be on-shored.
> But, I suspect that is nowhere near enough to address the
> potential of Taiwan going off-line -- even briefly.
>
> I'm thinking back to how screwed up the supply chain got during
> COVID and wonder what manufacturers and investors will do when
> the future is far less certain than a "pandemic".
>
> Opinions?
We have sleepwalked into this and the few who have raised the alarm have
been (and still are being) ignored and ridiculed.
There is a wider problem: we have become 'travel junkies' and rely too
much on transport. "I can get it cheaper from..." doesn't take into
account the hidden costs such as liability to supply disruption, loss of
control over the design and the fundamental need to teach underlying
principles and train people in making things themselves.
We haven't got the factories.
We haven't got the machines.
We haven't got the people who know how to operste the machines.
We haven't got the machines to make the machines.
We haven't got the people who know how to make the machines
We haven't got the material.
We haven't got the undustry to make the materials.
In the thrall of Greenwash we have simply exported the 'dirty' jobs to
other countries and then added to the pollution by shipping the goods
back.
If Russia could do to the UK what it is doing to Ukraine, the country
would have to surrender within a week.
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