Thanks, fact is I read the original post first thing however.
I don’t know why I am one of the few people on this site supporting American business and industry.
Just saying.
America needs to rebuild America.
You're not.
You are one of the few who doesn't actually make constructive suggestions.
“America needs to rebuild America.”
Far easier said than done, unfortunately. We have steadily relinquished our “core competencies” in manufacturing in pursuit of developing “lean manufacturing.” We no longer have the need for the people with skill sets required, in many cases, to produce quality manufactured goods.
Not through want or desire but through the steady growth of technology-oriented solutions for manufacturing that are bound to replace the sheer numbers of engineering functions that would be filled in past decades by working people.
Without a knowledge base and skilled craftsmen, we would literally need a re-education program that would..yep, you guessed it...approximate a total top to bottom revamp of our processes. Which would probably require...yep, you guessed it...massive government intervention.
Just like the greatest generation who is rapidly dying out, many of our craftsmen and mechanically sophisticated workforce has been left behind. Design, mechanical design fabrication and tooling and fixture through the manufacturing process to end product assemblers are almost no longer existant. 3D robotics, for a simple correlation, can replace almost all of them, for even fairly simple operations. The legions of talented draftsmen, design engineers and metalworkers and operators to assembly are already gone.
Gone, like people who can accurately give you change of a dollar. Not that we will need them soon, when we are all issued our spending cards. And when the next technologically driven generations realize someone needs to do it, they may find that they don’t know how and there will not be enough mentoring to show them.