Well to give you a real answer that would depend on how you look at it. Transport industry tends to favor east coast, but that’s mostly thanks to legacy infrastructure.
On the other hand, the past few years of infrastructure bills promoted southwest manufacturing uptick due to easier tax rates, preferred interest from government structures, and as well lower cost workforce that require lower per capita investment for bringing training up to speed.
California had a whole bunch, between strong port access, strong technical expertise, the whole Silicon Valley thing lol.
But given current administration policies, attitudes towards education achievements, and importance of targeted subsidizing, nevermind everything else the past 40 or so years of privatization. It’s a lot to catch up on, most of which requires long term planning.
Of course then you could get into the economics side of things, and that the amount invested through our own foreign direct investment brings about greater income in the long run. Basically by subsidizing foreign production of different goods, we don’t bear the cost of better research and investment in the future, we can use trade agreements to purchase, say computer chips to keep things consistent, which have stipulations that the exporting country purchase mass quantities of lower trade goods at a price advantageous to us.
So uh, it’s pretty much a loose loose situation here lol.
Brilliant, so in summary even if you could get some level of manufacturing going it’ll be somewhat crippled by decades of shit economic, social, and educational policies. Ya know to a degree I’m reminded how Roman manufacturing of certain key goods was increasingly weakened towards the end of the Western half of the empire before it ultimately spiralled into a failing economy in general.
If it makes it any better I may be lying inadvertently, it could just be standard economic slowdown or a shift in the type of material goods. It’s one of those things where what was being produced was simply recycled or decayed, it’s a bit of a controversial area in that regard up for debate and interpretation. My interest in the area is focused on Britain so largely removed from the Roman world in a lot of ways by that time.
What states even have the capacity to mildly mass produce that stuff? California, New York, maybe some random New English state?
Well to give you a real answer that would depend on how you look at it. Transport industry tends to favor east coast, but that’s mostly thanks to legacy infrastructure.
On the other hand, the past few years of infrastructure bills promoted southwest manufacturing uptick due to easier tax rates, preferred interest from government structures, and as well lower cost workforce that require lower per capita investment for bringing training up to speed.
California had a whole bunch, between strong port access, strong technical expertise, the whole Silicon Valley thing lol.
But given current administration policies, attitudes towards education achievements, and importance of targeted subsidizing, nevermind everything else the past 40 or so years of privatization. It’s a lot to catch up on, most of which requires long term planning.
Of course then you could get into the economics side of things, and that the amount invested through our own foreign direct investment brings about greater income in the long run. Basically by subsidizing foreign production of different goods, we don’t bear the cost of better research and investment in the future, we can use trade agreements to purchase, say computer chips to keep things consistent, which have stipulations that the exporting country purchase mass quantities of lower trade goods at a price advantageous to us.
So uh, it’s pretty much a loose loose situation here lol.
Brilliant, so in summary even if you could get some level of manufacturing going it’ll be somewhat crippled by decades of shit economic, social, and educational policies. Ya know to a degree I’m reminded how Roman manufacturing of certain key goods was increasingly weakened towards the end of the Western half of the empire before it ultimately spiralled into a failing economy in general.
Pretty much.
Interesting comparison though, sad to say my understanding of old world economics is too low to give a real answer in that regard lol.
If it makes it any better I may be lying inadvertently, it could just be standard economic slowdown or a shift in the type of material goods. It’s one of those things where what was being produced was simply recycled or decayed, it’s a bit of a controversial area in that regard up for debate and interpretation. My interest in the area is focused on Britain so largely removed from the Roman world in a lot of ways by that time.