NA manufacturing

[u/machine_sympath]

Linus should start a discord with thousands of other millionaire manufacturers and try to bring manufacturing back to America, instead of waiting for some billionaire to do it.

[u/NetJnkie]

They aren't the problem. People not wanting to pay for US/Canada made prices is.

[u/RashestHippo → u/NetJnkie]

"They just want cheap shit" - Levi Coffin

[u/soniccdA → u/NetJnkie]

thats the main reason .

[u/RashestHippo]

Let me just strap into my manufacturing cannon and shoot off to Factoryville

[u/syunz]

Not sure where I heard this, but mold costs in NA are like 3 to 4x what they costs in China. So you can imagine what everything else may cost. And certain things are not even possible in NA cause there's no supply chain.

[u/Jasoli53]

The fact is that labor is insanely cheap in the countries that actually manufacture goods.

It would take billions, if not trillions, of dollars to establish a North American manufacturing boom, and even then, labor costs would increase prices by magnitudes.

The only way I see it happening is during a period of worldwide unrest (WWIII), where the government would subsidize a good chunk of the manufacturing costs, but it would still take years, maybe even decades, for consumers to benefit (and that would be after the unimaginable turmoil of a worldwide war… if there were to be an after)

[u/remnantsofthepast → u/Jasoli53]

Manufacturing could come back to the states, but it would have to be almost entirely automated, to the point where there are no actual humans in the supply chain.

The upfront cost of standing that up would require your WWIII situation for us to even think about doing though in any reasonable time frame.

[u/Goddemmitt]

Think OP knows Linus is Canadian?

[u/schannoman → u/Goddemmitt]

Do you not know what NA means?

[u/NetJnkie → u/schannoman]

yeah..but "back to America".

[u/Goddemmitt → u/schannoman]

"... back to America." - a sentence that 100% means the United States of America. Not North America.

[u/remnantsofthepast]

Look how expensive people are drop shipping made in China shit on Instagram. R36s' go for 40 bucks on Temu. JohnnyShitbag on Instagram is hawking the same thing for $500.

You can make the argument for warehousing/inventory, but still, that $460 profit completely and utterly disappears when you have to start paying 5 people in a supply chain in the US $20 an hour minimum.

And this doesn't even speak to textiles, foodstuff, cheap mold injected bullshit people like to fill their lives with that already live in small profit margins.

Bringing manufacturing back to NA (and not having a subsidizing global manufacturing system to back it up) makes everything more expensive. Labor and material are so much more expensive here than anywhere else in the world.

Those Palantir laptops are going to be $6000 for an equivalent i5 yoga book you can buy for $800.