Which are non critical and can be shed without much harm. Critical industries are, by definition, critical and require sacrificing efficiency to preserve.

If you want to be able to build and retain the capability, you have to protect the machine that does the building: people, institutional knowledge and domain expertise, equipment, etc. Otherwise, you forget how to build, the machine evaporates. And here we are.

That’s because a huge portion of the service industry requires local people.

If we measured our service industries the same way we measure boats, we would rapidly see they can’t float either.

Its kind of difficult for a hairdresser in Turkey to compete with the barber down the street from my house.