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1. morbus+De9[view] [source] 2026-02-04 11:09:36
>>sberen+(OP)
This reminded of the YouTube guy of "Smarter Every Day" who tried to manufacture a a grill brush completely in USA and still be competitive in the marketplace (i.e. China) [0].

It turned out that USA / "the west" lost the engineering knowledge to manufacture "stuff" (in this case injection molding and other procedures): Nowadays, we simply create the plans and schematics (e.g. CAD files) and let the Chinese do the building.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ZTGwcHQfLY

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2. RataNo+Jda[view] [source] 2026-02-04 16:48:46
>>morbus+De9
What China really has is not just cheap labor but dense, living industrial ecosystems
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