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Yeah, therein lies the real problem, America doesn’t do it mostly because those with political influence don’t want to; everything else is face-saving excuses/Americans thinking they’re morally and culturally superior to everyone else despite getting our asses handed to us.

But I’m optimistic that if the federal government could wrest control away from (selfish) local governments and set a national agenda people can get behind, progress will happen. The CHIPS act demonstrated some amount of this, but it can go much farther, both into other industrial verticals but also in reversing dumb local NIMBY policies.

The USA can do this in a more fiscally responsible way than China did if they can get corruption under control. Anyway if there’s anything the USA has a lot of, it’s money.