When a hospital wants to buy from Armbrust, we send them to our shopify store, they can put in a PO and we ship same day. It's like bringing the internet to a world that's been using fax machines to communicate.
If I were to place an order for 1 million masks on your shopify store you would ship them the same day?
* More reliable (fewer moving parts and only one element needs calibration)
* Less expensive (just an LCD screen + Z axis)
* Much faster to print (any number of parts that fit on the build plate print get printed at the same time)
* More flexible materials (independent control over color and material properties)
Interesting times ahead..
Tariffs are a universal evil of economics, but if on-the-ground economic policy won't account for human rights and long term ecological preservation and the survival of the species, then I'll take a crude equivalence and a boost to domestic manufacturing.
They just need to be instituted gradually.
But worry not libertarians of HackerNews, that'll NEVER happen. Missing quarterly stock price targets so your options cash will always take precedence over the survival of the species.
Yup. Many US made products are US assembled. The constituent components are still produced with slave labor and reckless abandon for the environment. There are some regulations around made in the usa vs assembled in the usa but they are minimal.
