July 23, 2024

No one at the political level is properly representing the deindustrialization that created the rust belt. They keep blaming someone for the result and claiming they are going to bring the manufacturing back.

It's a degree of stupidity that reflects upon a wide range of realities related to technology and it's production. Why would such ignorant persons be blaming someone else for the problem? Because ignorance is that way. Ignorant persons assume someone else has the problem for disagreeing with them.

The corporations didn't move production off shore by choice. They were either going out of business or finding a more functional way to adapt to globalization. They said so; but ignorant fools wouldn't listen, because they were clueless on everything related to technology.

As production of technology globalized, it created demands for a whole different method of producing products. First, it required selling to a market ten times as large or go bankrupt unable to compete. That means producing ten times as many items over a narrower range of variations. Then the new products needed to be adapted to high technology. And then a whole different group of employees were needed who could produce that type of technology and on a massive scale.

The increase in complexity of technology required more specialization, which means a narrower range of products for each producer and more producers. That means more components from different sources going into end results. And it means a lot more workers involved.

It takes more workers to produce complex technology—a lot more. Then more purposes are desired for the advancing technology. At the same time, more undeveloped countries and underprivileged persons get involved, because there is more they can do, when there are more steps in the production process and end results aren't required at most places.

Now add those factors up. They require globalization involving several billion workers for interacting producers. Virtually none of it can be done in one country anymore, while there is nothing but about 200 million workers in the U.S. There are absolutely no modern, technological products that those 200 million workers can produce without globalization.

None of those requirements could be remotely met within the U.S. For the blatherheads to insist otherwise shows why the U.S. is becoming irrelevant globally. There is no constructive leadership in trying to reverse technological evolution.

Not only does the increased complexity of high technology require a whole new method of production, the globalized result becomes intolerant of corruption. Complex technology leaves little space for corruption. It requires a purification of driving forces over industry. Failing to meet those requirements makes corrupters irrelevant, unless they insist on generating their relevance through hostilities.

Promoting fake science and technology as power mongering tools hastens the demise of the western world. Resources cannot be squandered on such frauds on such a mammoth scale without creating obstacles to production of more relevant products.