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I am not a fan of tariffs (with narrow exceptions for strategic goods), but this is dumb. If you decrease labor costs relative to capital costs, that can make high-wage countries competitive based on things like less logistical hassle and easier coordination with creative/retail.
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I interviewed a clothing factory once who said he's excited to implement robotics AI. He said this will make US manufacturing more competitive against China. I asked, "And what happens when Chinese factories also implement robotics AI?" He said, "Oh, I hadn't thought of that." x.com/imkaiarhodes/s…
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@RogueWPA
For instance, the TTRPG publisher Sine Nomine (Kevin Crawford) has said he pays the higher costs of Josten's (the yearbook people) for all of his printing to avoid the logistics nightmares that face his competitors who print in China or Finland.
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@RogueWPA
MWG shows he really doesn't get the economic logic later in the thread. The kind of bespoke tailoring he loves is extremely labor intensive and so high wage countries will necessarily have a disadvantage (unless time and coordination are of the essence).
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I will never understand why Americans want so badly to make cheap t-shirts to sell to an internal market, when they could instead build infrastructure for high-end tailoring, footwear, and knitwear, and export for an external market. Why are Americans so small minded? x.com/likekmjj/statu…
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@RogueWPA
Indochino has a very interesting business model which was based on US retail and alterations but Chinese tailors who work from measurements taken in US stores. Their model assumes though that a) you can wait a month for your suit and b) de minimis tariff exception.
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@RogueWPA
A "Kanasbraska" alternative to Indochino wouldn't work if we assume ~10 hours factory labor per suit. But if you invented a machine that cut that down to an hour, now the easier logistics make it competitive even if Dayang Group buys the identical machine.
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U.S. SpaceLawyer in France
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Also the entire reason China is maintaining its manufacturing domination is the embrace of automation, their population is in massive decline! It’s not bc they’re increasing the work supply!
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Chris Valentine
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Not only that, but he totally ignores that we can source the cotton from the US and sell to US consumers. China doesn’t have that advantage.
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