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It's funny to portray "USA need more power for GPUs" and then contrast China getting the power to actual industry making actual stuff useful to people

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With solar and wind.

We're all too busy filling out forms to manufacture anything in the West. They don't have to declare their conflict minerals contents (which seem impossible to verify), or even try to measure the PFAS in their products (good luck figuring out the PFAS contents of complex products like electronics).

More like we've spent decades offshoring every step of the manufacturing pipeline - from material processing to manufacturing tooling and all the skills and expertise in between - and now it's reached a state where even if you wanted to spin up manufacturing on the same scale locally, you need those decades again to bring every part of the economy back to support it.

That's true, but the GP still has a point. Manufacturing is easier in countries with less regulation about it. Yet we have to ask ourselves, how do we want to live?

I mean, we have those regulations because nobody wants to live in Lahore, Pakistan.

100%

Personal experience: In my town a public parking lot could not be built due to it possibly being "endangered moth" habitat.

There are places where you can still build things in the US, but they are more and more scarce.

Are you arguing that USA can no longer build parking lots due to environmental concerns? If so, that would indeed be remarkable since parking lots seem to be the facility that almost every US town has been able to build more than enough of.

You are the consumer, not the developer. As such, you have extreme survivorship bias.

Unless you're a developer/builder you have no concept of the projects KILLED by bureaucracy.

All you see is what was allowed to be built.

I’d like to see parking lots go extinct.

Me too. I can't wait for the day me and my entire family get our super powers and can just fly everywhere.

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