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Re:Quebec refuses to reinvest in Lion Electric (busses); US ... by watwut on Friday May 02, 2025 @07:44AM (#43868498)
It is not about manufacturing as in creating things. If it was, they would like Biden policies and continued them. Real manufacturing today is heavily automatized - you can create a lot of things with a few jobs.

It is about manufacturing jobs as identity and social status. Biden would create manufacturing as a "modern factories that create things". These do not employ all that many people and wont revert the world back to idealized past.

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Re:Quebec refuses to reinvest in Lion Electric (busses); US ... by mjevans on Friday May 02, 2025 @11:39AM (#43871242)
Yes, those jobs are never returning. Manufacturing will increasingly be automated, or the world will crash in some highly unfortunate way that we'd all be (un?)lucky to survive.

Production of critical parts within allied or the same nation is a reasonable goal.

It's probably also more energy efficient to manufacture things closer and ship less.

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