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Re:How to Build 300k Airplanes in Five Years by littlestymaar on Friday May 24, 2024 @02:47AM (#40463547)
“Capitalists will sell the rope to hang them”

Lenin

> Is it just because it would be impossible to have an industrial base in a world where Asia exists and can produce everything that could be built in the US for 1/5 the cost?

It's not impossible, had the US kept capital control and tariffs there would have been no way for Asia to catch-up at all. But the free trade ideology and greed led the US where it is now.

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Re:How to Build 300k Airplanes in Five Years by concordDance on Friday May 24, 2024 @04:29AM (#40464157)
Worth noting this also lifted a billion people out of poverty.
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Re:How to Build 300k Airplanes in Five Years by mrguyorama on Friday May 24, 2024 @10:01AM (#40466372)
China could have lifted their people out of poverty on their own. We didn't need to sell them our manufacturing base to do that.
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