Re:Boeing workers vote to strike in resounding defeat for tr...
by bluGill on Friday September 13, 2024 @09:07AM
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> This is not 1940, and the US simply doesn't have the strategic industrial base it used to.
this is just wrong.
The US didn't really have that industrial base in 1940 either. We developed it fast over a couple years of war.
To the extent the US had an industrial base, we still do. US manufactures more than we did in 1940 - we just do it with far fewer people in factories via automation.
Re:Boeing workers vote to strike in resounding defeat for tr...
by bombcar on Friday September 13, 2024 @11:10AM
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This is really the key - there's a ocean of difference between "we manufacture literally nothing" and "we don't manufacture/assemble as much as we could".
this is just wrong.
The US didn't really have that industrial base in 1940 either. We developed it fast over a couple years of war.
To the extent the US had an industrial base, we still do. US manufactures more than we did in 1940 - we just do it with far fewer people in factories via automation.