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The US is building factories at a fast rate

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Re: The US is building factories at a fast rate

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Post by moneywoes »

atlasunshrugged wrote: post #56
mgr86 wrote: post #8

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> Maybe a good time to start a company selling to the government if only I knew what the government wanted to buy. Besides weaponry that is.

Gov also isn't just federal, there's state and local! In general, the federal government is really bad at procuring pure software products (with some exceptions like Scale AI). Edit to add: If you're building in the space, YC cofounder matching also does events targeted to gov once in a while, and I personally am doing some ideating if you want to chat

Would love too, I work for tech a company selling to gov now have a focus on tech and gtm

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Post by uoaei »

Aerbil313 wrote: post #216
AnimalMuppet wrote: post #207

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Falling in half in six years? Again, woah. Any idea what's driving that?

Modernity. The Industrial Revolution and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race…

With a larger population combined with more of a chance of living past the age of 5, you need fewer births to get the same population growth rate globally. As the world population rapidly urbanizes we will settle into a new normal that will still approach Earth's carrying capacity faster than we can adequately react.

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Post by g9yuayon »

JoeAltmaier wrote: post #227
g9yuayon wrote: post #226

I hope this trend is real and will continue. Manufacturing is so important to a country. It creates jobs. It builds talent. It stimulates innovation. It improves the lives of millions of people. It keeps a country's defense strong and sustainable. Without a robust and comprehensive manufacturing sector, I don't know how the US can proper in the future. I pains me to see that BYD could produce millions of masks in day…

All true ... 50 years ago. Today factories in the US are built automated. No jobs, not for anybody but an accountant, an administrator, a couple of engineers.

Maybe fewer jobs per square feet, but it's the natural evolution of manufacturing. What matters is we need engineers and workers on the floor so we can innovate and develop more senior talent.

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Post by EFreethought »

no_wizard wrote: post #215
Aunche wrote: post #212

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>have the benefit of actually owning their own businesses This sounds like a business is just something that happens to fall on your lap while you're fixing a pipe rather than something that you build with your blood sweat and tears. Most tradespeople make nowhere close to 300k. Their success is credited to their hard work, not their happening to choose the trades.

I should have addressed this more sufficiently, but there are a couple different things I'm saying here so let me clarify: One is being the trades is rewarding, yes not all bring in 300K+, but I don't know a single trades person, many often my junior, who don't bring in a good income pretty comparable to software engineers at non FAANG companies make (typically 150K+) and I don't think any of them are carrying high d…

WRT travel: I think if you are willing to travel, you can make a lot in any industry (except maybe being a truck driver).

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Post by monero-xmr »

epistasis wrote: post #174
monero-xmr wrote: post #81

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Of course. But maybe the government shouldn’t be picking winners and losers, and gambling with my tax dollars.

The government wasn't picking winners and losers, anymore than VCs or banks pick winners and losers. It was loans for well proven tech development, and has a fantastic track record for financial success.

Certainly you can see the difference between VCs and banks deciding where to invest, and the government which allocates tax dollars?

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Post by fooker »

JoeAltmaier wrote: post #227
g9yuayon wrote: post #226

I hope this trend is real and will continue. Manufacturing is so important to a country. It creates jobs. It builds talent. It stimulates innovation. It improves the lives of millions of people. It keeps a country's defense strong and sustainable. Without a robust and comprehensive manufacturing sector, I don't know how the US can proper in the future. I pains me to see that BYD could produce millions of masks in day…

All true ... 50 years ago. Today factories in the US are built automated. No jobs, not for anybody but an accountant, an administrator, a couple of engineers.

>Today factories in the US are built automated.

Could I please borrow your time machine?

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Post by adgjlsfhk1 »

User23 wrote: post #168
eppp wrote: post #105

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If you increased tax receipts you could justify more government building and partnerships or grants. Make those grants pay union scale or require union contracts.

US federal government spending obviously isn’t constrained by tax receipts. You’d think that would be clear in this day and age of consistent trillion dollar annual deficits. Thus spending programs should be judged based on outcomes and not nominal cost. I’m all for a strong middle class. However, I don’t see how an inheritance tax that forces children to sell their parents farm or business to pay estate taxes is sup…

inheritance tax kicks in around 10 million dollars. it doesn't touch the middle class. it touches billionaires who die and leave a hundred million to everyone in their family.

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Post by Aerbil313 »

uoaei wrote: post #242
Aerbil313 wrote: post #216

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Modernity. The Industrial Revolution and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race…

With a larger population combined with more of a chance of living past the age of 5, you need fewer births to get the same population growth rate globally. As the world population rapidly urbanizes we will settle into a new normal that will still approach Earth's carrying capacity faster than we can adequately react.

Human population has overshot in 1971[1], what are you talking about? Carrying capacity has long been exceeded, we’re living thanks to the phantom carrying capacity[2].

1: https://medium.com/@CollapseSurvival/overshoot-why-its-alrea...

2: https://www.resilience.org/stories/2005-03-06/dependence-pha...

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Post by gsatic »

no_wizard wrote: post #116
obblekk wrote: post #2

> The US has added around 800,000 jobs in manufacturing employment over the last two years, employing around 13 million workers It's too early to know, but if it turns out the solution to decades of economic misery for middle class blue collar workers was 1. 50% tariffs on China, and 2. $100B of subsidies to chip makers and green tech... The reversal of Reaganomics we're living through will become permanent for at le…

I had a professor remark once (this is circa 2009) that we should all learn a highly skilled trade around advanced manufacturing because eventually offshoring will reverse itself and by your early 30s you'll be in a prime position to profit immensely off the re-shoring of advanced manufacturing equipment and processes Maybe he was right. I'm in my early 30s now, and I don't regret becoming a software engineer, but al…

I dont get it. Why did he say it will reverse? Do you think other countries arent offering freebies or a high skilled labor at cheaper rates than the US?

The US has outsourced so much, this cash dump is just going to head straight into the pockets of cronies who will then say 2-5 years they need more.

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