Thank you for the reply, linuxguy!

I believe the stuff happening now with terrifs are just negotion tactics to force countries to come to the table. The US is sort of the sales hub of the world. I am not condoning this approach, but it is definitely a leverage point of the US.

Regarding the next candidate undoing Trump's terrifs: Biden kept a lot if Trump's immagration party when entering the office. Just like then, Trump took the heat so later polititions don't have to. This is a gold egg for future polititions so they don't need to touch a possibly unpopular issue.

Theoretically, with the arrival of manufacturing jobs, the average minimum wage would rise. Ford payed his workers so they could afford his product. I can't picture how these jobs would pay less than Walmart, but I may be wrong. I think it would definitely would hurt people working jobs in retail and fast food. I think it would be mildly felt by the middle class. But I don't think it would hurt the people taking these jobs.

Y'now, not everyone can be a manager or programmer. Having more work opportunies for people naturally inclined is a good thing. It brings self worth and a bigger impact on society as a whole.

I've been asking this from everyone, but if you had to bring back some manufacturing to the US for national security, how would you approach it? What would be some positives to increasing manufacturing in the us?

Thank you for the reply Ol!

I'm putting this in the form of questions to force some critical thinking. Even then, a lot the responses I see are canned from the writers prefered media. When people are stuck in vacuum, asking questions helps more tham telling answers.

Thank you for the reply!

There is definitely some truth to this, but please let me give some counter arguments. You didn't really back up your claims, so there is not very much substance to your assertion at best, and at worst its misleading..

To be honest, China's dominance has also hollowed out Japan's ability to compete in this area. It's several years behind the hollowing out of the U.S., but it's definitely happening.

I’m currently working with a client that cuts steel blocks, and the flood of cheap Chinese steel is slowly driving them out of business. The impact of China’s pricing is a global phenomenon. I wouldn’t be surprised if U.S. steel is in a similar position.

I'm sure remote work has helped, but rural areas in the U.S. are starved for jobs. The labor is inexpensive, and the people are eager. As of 2025, the average hourly labor cost in China is approximately $3.70. The lowest minimum wage in the U.S. is $7.25. I’ve seen companies open call centers in these areas because of the lower costs.

There are over 1 million people working in low-paid Amazon warehouses. I’m sure a substantial number of them would be thrilled to make things rather than just deliver them.

In the long term, China is going to encroach on high-value manufacturing, given the strategic position they’re putting themselves in. It’s just smart. Our high-paying jobs will gradually shift over there if we stay on our current course—not just the low-paying ones. In my opinion, this isn’t sustainable.

@ceoyoyo, this is my question to you: As the higher paying US jobs leave the US to China and India, do you think our policies are sustainable long term? What do you think should be done? China is diversifying it's countries it sells to, but the US still largely relies on it for the majority of its goods. How would you set us up where if China decided it didn't want to sell to us, we would have acceptable impact to our lives.

Thank you for the reply!

From what I know, robots are heavily used in car manufacturing and in places like Amazon warehouses. Amazon currently employs 1 million people in these warehouses (again according to the numbers I'm seeing.) I think there is wide breadth in needed skill even when involved with automation.

There is a known skill gap for finding people for manufacturing in the US that I do think is correctable if we put the effort in. What I don't understand is why we don't utilize things like H1B visas to help fill that and teach others. This isn't any different than importing engineers and scientists to the US.

I think if only for national security, there should be some manufacturing in the US. I view it a bit like how we eat meat but don't ever see the cow slaughtered. We have lost direct understanding of the impacts of manufacturing on the environment because it is hidden from US.

Gilgaron, I have an ask from you: What are some of the positives and negatives of bringing some manufacturing back to the US. If you were going to bring manufacturing back, how would you approach it? What would be the difficulties?

I see this arrangement a lot which comes off as mote of a political taking point. Biden didn't reverse everything Trump did. Do you know why? Because he took the political damage from the policy so others don't have to.

It's possible that other administrations reverse it, bit I don't think it is a given. I think that is an excuse to do nothing.

I don't really understand the pass given to colleges. Even before AI I have a college I'm in a lawsuit for the professor not preparing for classes and abusing children for his faults.

AI could teach better than this easily. The bar isn't high. I can tell also by the quality of the junior engineers that college isn't everything. You will more likely find someone with drive, that is the difference.

I lost my leg to cancer. College was hell. I didn't really enjoy it at all. I didn't have fun. The people who did without it better where copying from each other. Is this really any worse than using AI as a student? I mean, they will be using the same tool entering the workforce might as well get good at it.

I mean I had a graduate now who makes Hitler jokes in Linkedin. I seriously don't get college.

I see so many comments that manufacturing can't come back to the us. Why are so many people here convinced we should no make anything in the country anymore?

Behaviorally y'all speak like manufacturing is ashithole job. I'm living in Japan right now and it still has a lot of it's own manufacturing. Do you consider this is a shithole county? That it is below Americans?

Whenever I see a Trump article, it is like the people of slashdot fall to the intelligence of a 6 year old and can't have a proper discussion.

When Americans come on to TV and they say they want to drop their citizenship because of the current pressident... it makes you look like you don't support democracy and you are not trying to understand the people who got him there. Itsso embarrasing to watchin its own way.

guess. I want Republican to try to get Trump if the ticket. But what you going to do when the Democrats put him on the ticket thinking they would win by default.

Your vote would have probably meant more in the Republican primares as well.

Now that the DNC elevated and all of these these far right candidates to see success, I dern to read commemts like these pretending that you vote and the DNC didn't put hom to there.

I think spotify is the posterchild for it working. A hike works well for me because it gives a good signal of process and we get feedback. I'm in the land of Japan for a bit where adding a login page takes 6 months with waterfall.

The core of agile is cutting work into small tasks. That's it. That should be an obviously good idea I'm most cases. That is I'm fact the core of programming and reducing complexity.

You should be refactoring as needed while going along. The nice part of this is this approach can cut down in arbitrary refactoring as well.

I think you mean to say globalism and stopping AI would be harakiri. You could regulate around that if other countries want to race to the bottom.

I sometimes feel like global trade gives a lot of people permission to turn off their brains and critical thinking.

One of the problems of globalism is it tends to amplify the winners so no one else can complete. The up side is the scale of the companies means they can make things that otherwise wouldn't exist. An example would be large open source projects like chrome.

In the military space I don't think we can avoid AI. That will be literal life and death.

After the fallout I just don't have the stomach to get another on. His first work that grew in me was the Killer Instinct stuff. I listened to it even though I don't have an XBox or the games. I got Doom 2016 for my switch which is a fun challenge with the motion controls. https://www.reddit.com/r/Doom/...

Can you say the parts that is lawless for better conversation? I think for the government always has had leeway for checks and balances. The people that are there are there as part of the Democratic process even if they are the right wing candidate that the dnc proped up in the primaries. I just don't really understand this double speak. Its like people only read news that is convenient so they can blame everyone else.

We don't have a democracy. We have Democrats choosing the candidates for the left and right in fake elections. They spend $43 million on the 2022 elections to raise MAGA candidates. Ask Bernie or the MAGA republicans.

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There is a good amount of national security bringing some manufacturing back into the US. Imagine China invading Taiwan and what it would do to the US electronics industry. Even if you irrationally hate Trump because if your preferred news sources, it doesn't mean everything he is doing is bad. I mean, Nixon created the EPA. But no one associates that with him.

Java was one of my first programming languages. Nowadays if I need to interact with it is is in a enterprise application with all of the odd architecture decisions that make it hard to understand and impossible to edit with vim.

Most of my work is in lambdas nowdays. I'm working on making a framework in Japan for Japanese companies. Does anyone remember how long it took to load a Java applet in the 90's on a older computer? Its like dejavu with AWS lambda.

Most of my work is converting these to typescript/python and lower level languages when the performance is required. It's faster to write, runs faster on AWS, and normal people can still maintain it.

I'm sure if you are writing native applications C# or Java might make the most sense. For me though, especially after Apple dropped native support for Java, I just don't see the point.