[Jim Noble]

The company believed that advanced automation would allow the plant to compete cost-effectively with imported products while meeting consumer demand for U.S.-made tools.

More libertarian nonsense.

Does the nation require US manufactured tools, dies, steel, etc? Obviously.

So.

"Compete cost-effectively with imported products" (i.e., reduce US workers to penury and fail to incentivize Young people to learn resource extraction, refining, and manufacture)?

There's a lot easier way to fix this problem.

Hang the bankers. Close the ports to foreign imports. When they try to sneak in? Close the borders and sink the ships.

[PIF]

Close the ports to foreign imports.

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Because no one needs food or medicine, that will show ‘em!!

[central_va]

Ultimately the brutal mypopic efficiency of state-less capitalism kills capitalism by squeezing as much labor as possible from workers for as little as possible sowing the sseds of rebellion.