alt Hacker NewsOne sounds incapable from a skill perspective, the other is incapable from a market perspective. I’ll take the later over the former any day.
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stingraycharles • today at 3:00 PM
The later form was part of the design from the beginning: relying on imports for something this critical in times of an epidemic was a supply chain risk. It was never intended to compete in terms of pricing.
It baffles me that this wasn’t made more explicit? That seems to be the root cause of the failure.
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croes • today at 6:55 PM
If the price is too high you aren’t skilled enough to make them cheaper
Agree. The problem is over extended lengths of time the people with the skills to make these things—or make tools that make them—will leave the workforce.
That's how this goes from being a market issue to a skill issue.