The pandemic has shown us that having all of your manufacturing in one place (China ) makes your economy incredibly...

The pandemic has shown us that having all of your manufacturing in one place (China ) makes your economy incredibly vulnerable. So how do businesses move their manufacturing to other countries or internally without increasing costs?

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>So how do businesses move their manufacturing to other countries or internally without increasing costs?

They don't. They'll have to pay their workers more with a competitive wage to attract employees which means a thinner profit margin for the company but a strong, vibrant, workforce down the line with more disposable income.

Trump said he'd bring manufacturing back to the US. He can actually do it now with the state of the world economy. Prime opportunity if he can get the right people to pass the right legislature

Have you ever seen a factory? There are yt chanels on how its made. 95% of work is automatic.

Invalid they still need blue and white collar workers to run the fucking thing and they pay more than service sector retail jobs. Industry and manufacturing created the idea of the middle class and consumerism.

Aren't there other countries that can take certain industries like Mexico, India and Vietnam?

Actually it has shown it doesn't matter if you manufacture in China and actually may be beneficial because they don't care about the workers, so things open quicker.

Will he actually do it? Could we get him to? How would that effect us financially

He has a golden opportunity to cement himself as arguably the most important president America has ever had by doing so, but he wont seize it.

For this specific event maybe but its shown us that in the event of an emergency all of our industries couldn't produce what they needed to produce

How do we get him to do this?

>So how do businesses move their manufacturing to other countries or internally without increasing costs?
automation

this is true, you still need technicians.

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they've been slowly doing it, even before the pandemic. SE Asia, and Mexico are big beneficiaries. China's main pull was great infrastructure and loads of very cheap labor. Their infrastructure has improved, and their labor has become more expensive. Chinese labor is way more expensive than Mexican or Vietnamese labor; and the political hassle outside of China is also less of a headache.

The pandemic will accelerate the process of de-sinofication of production; however, instead of moving all to other developing countries, the developed world will probably bring more production home and either automate or import workers.

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I think with the huge glut of unemployed going into this, no on will really have a choice of working in a factory or not.

We could see the Great Resurgence of American made goods. I'm excited!

I'm less optimistic. the political incentives for Dems are to keep welfare high enough for as many voters to remain unemployed as possible. I expect, for the USA, more production moved from china to Mexico, and similar amounts of latino migrant labor within the USA as the pre-pandemic levels.

Welfare is going to be completely unsustainable going into this.
Dem'sll need to rotate their ideology or be replaced by another party that can adapt to the economic climate.
And Republicans can no longer sustain constant gibs to companies while the average american is destitute and fighting to eat.

It'd be best if both parties faded into the ether and we approached the future without any political bias besides a focus on making things better. This could be the rise the independent party.

probably not with this election, but one can hope.

Yes but with so few employees you should be able to keep costs down

Do it and we can send it out to the politicians

How would they do that?

Whatever we do i hope it fucks China

neo-liberalism, globalism, and comparative advantages were a mistake

then again, a model of domestic labor failed in 1929.

Spot on. And this the contradiction inherent to the progression of capitalism. Either workers come to be be paid a prosperous living wage that reflects the actual amount of value they produce for the company, or they are entirely replaced by machines. In both cases the profits thin out to almost nothing. In the former, the worker is paid exactly what they produce for the company or only for their necessary labor time, and in the latter, automation seems like a boon but you cannot exploit a machine like you can a laborer--- all its value depreciates with each moment of productive use. You could run a robot around the clock and it will just wear out faster.

Manufacturing will never return to America because no one wants to buy an iPhone for how much it would cost when you pay the workers who make it a living wage. But also no one in the first world should have to work manufacturing and it should all be automated. No human could find existential fulfillment in a job where they repeat the same technical task thousands of times a day for 50 years til they retire or die. Automate manufacturing, make all goods cost next to nothing so you barely have to work unless you want to, and free up humans to work in creative fields.

Oh really? when intelligent people said that 20 years ago you called us racist idiots

There are only 3 choices:
1) Automation
2) Onshoring manufacturing back to the home country when fully automated.
3) Manufacture products in another country (Vietnam, Mexico, Thailand).
4) However.... it's hard to compete against Chinese manufacturing

What good ideas you got for exposure to those markets?

>So how do businesses move their manufacturing to other countries or internally without increasing costs?
>without increasing costs
Costs will increase the second you choose not to go with the lowest bidder for every single fiscal or industrial decision made by the company. This is an objective fact backed by the most basic logic one can conceive of. So rather than going to the second lowest bidder, bring the workforce back home and stop offshoring so you can make slightly more shekels than usual at the expense of the common American.

>B-BUT MUH AUTOMATION IN THE STATES!!!
If it was going to happen, it would have happened anyways.

>arguably the most important president America has ever had
Donald 'drink bleach' Trump? - nah.
I agree entirely, the opportunity is certainly there. But Trumps just concerned with getting his own hotels and shit back in the black. American Manufacturing interests him for precisely as long as it takes to make an empty election promise

If only you could manufacture things you need within your own country using your own resources and labour. its a shame thats literally impossible.

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