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fookeryesterday at 4:12 PM1 replyview on HN

We don't even produce things like bolts, screws, and springs.

If we suddenly had to, it would take billions of dollars and several months to spin up any real capacity.


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phil21today at 12:29 AM

More like years. Perhaps decades if you needed to do it at scale across entire supply chains all at once.

All this stuff requires people. And we simply don’t have them. The folks who could be trained to build such stuff are still in primary school.

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