> I'm not at all convinced the US can build anything anymore.
But it has! Look at all of our private industry! That's the point!
> We don't have titans of industry anymore.
What?!
But it has! Look at all of our private industry! That's the point!
> We don't have titans of industry anymore.
What?!
Semiconductors? Nope.
High speed rail? Nope.
Auto industry? Nope.
Major infrastructure projects like bridges, tunnels, airports, etc? Nope.
Electronics (phones/laptops/etc)? Nope.
?????
The US is not exactly a manufacturing powerhouse.
At least for now.
We just gave $40 billion to Argentina for pretty much no reason whatsoever.
Now the US government has spent a whole lot more on SpaceX but they're buying services.
SpaceX is an incredible bargain compared to the alternatives like ULA.
The US is second in manufacturing and far ahead of numbers 3 and 4 (Germany and Japan IIRC).
I posit that software has no such supply chain dependency, literally anyone can do it, and thinking the US is unique in their ability to produce software isn't accurate.
Doesn't it seem odd to you that only the two largest economies in the world are doing something so lucrative if literally anyone can do it?
EUV tech is from American universities, licensed by choice by the US Government. In a world where Nikon was a much smaller optics player, they'd be the ones building EUV machines, and we'd be pretending Japan was the source of this tech.
The US's main contribution is doing the research required to make this whole thing possible.
They produce 1.8M cars/year while GM and Ford produce 6M and 4M, respectively. (2023. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_automotive_manufacture...)
If the Chinese EV tariffs are dropped, or if BYD start manufacturing at scale in the US, all the old US auto manufacturers are dead.