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Built in obsolescence needs to be eradicated.
This thought that things like refrigerators, washers, stoves, microwaves, etc are built to last only 10 - 15 years and replaced instead of 20 x 30 years and be easily and inexpensively repairable is just wrong.
I have some snap top food storage canisters that could use new silicon gaskets that just cannot be found. Instead, we are expected to just go out and buy a whole new canister. What a waste!
The left is always whining about trash and recycling and filled up landfills, etc, and yet essentially advocate for the most disposable society we have ever had.
What hypocrisy!
We can onshore making electronics and consumer goods, but to really break this cycle of disposable/rental society, big tech and big industry have to change their strategies of collecting data and making money, and they are not about to do that.
One easy legislative fix would be to pass laws requiring the routine declaration of what data is being collected by each company, and assigning a value to the data collected on people and used by a company as an asset. If Google makes money by monitoring your clicks and search history (and they do), you get a cut. All consumers get a check and a 1099 at the end of the year. Right to own and right to repair laws should also apply to any product sold in the US. Anything offered “as a service” should have a standalone full purchase version that does not expire and has no required tether to the home company.
Of course, getting those type of laws actually passed would be impossible with the politicians of today, but they are the type of steps necessary to actually break this awful cycle.
Just end all commerce with China—maybe offer zero federal income tax for businesses relocating from China.
Imagine if the world ganged up on America like it is Russia and embargoes our supply of entirely offshort antibiotics?
We have already experienced this an auto manufacturing yet so many people think that offshoring manufacturing of critical medical supplies is just fine.
Couple it with some ‘Labor Reform’ to defang the unions and I’m all-in with making things at home. Otherwise, we’ll wind up as a Third World country...due to those unions.
And not, the unions are only (somewhat) weak now BECAUSE they know the that imports can replace what they do if they’re not careful, so don’t be fooled.