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Re:The US is building factories at a wildly fast rate by hellotomyrars on Friday June 09, 2023 @03:52AM (#36254685)
Not an entirely honest appraisal of the dismantling of US manufacturing in the 80s.

Big corporations didn’t reluctantly close down factories, hat in hand, because people weren’t buying their products. They moved the manufacturing offshores and people kept buying the products they always have.

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Re:The US is building factories at a wildly fast rate by ako on Friday June 09, 2023 @05:29AM (#36255387)
You can't blame the corporations, if they wouldn't have moved the manufacturing while the competition did, they wouldn't have been able to compete on price, and consumers would have bought the cheaper options.
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