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0 pointsvharuck4y ago0 comments

One option is government subsidies, like what's done for farms and military hardware. Just keep buying it up, even if it rots or rusts. The goal is to make sure those industries remain healthy and don't slip back in expertise.

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onionisafruit4y ago· 3 in thread

Most governments can’t afford to do that.

hda24y ago

I'm pretty sure the majority of countries can. We're talking 90s-era infrastructure that costs less than a single modern passenger airplane to build and run.

Governments can subsidize their use in local industries or even build the infrastructure themselves doing what many governments already do with power, telecommunications, and transport.

quartesixte4y ago

The vast majority of countries, I reckon, don’t have enough domestic stability or human resources to maintain any sort of thing like that. Let alone the capital. It takes a small army to run a industrial-production level facility, a few of which need advanced degrees and experience.

The G7 and G20 aren’t an exclusive club for nothing. There are real things behind GDP.

KirillPanov4y ago

Every government can afford that: simply tariff the imports that threaten to displace this capability.

If that makes goods too expensive for the population (it won't) they couldn't afford them anyways. They were simply paying for the goods by mortgaging their future.

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