There are so many reasons why China could stop shipping stuff to america.
- Actual shooting war starts between China and The US.
- Sanctions against Russia expand to include now-Russian-ally China
- China just says we have had enough of dealing with Wall-martians
- People in China actually believe the rhetoric that Xi is putting out that America is the bad guy.
- The dollar collapses, and all the boats turn around and go back to China.
- China decides to wall themselves off and not deal with the rest of the world... again.
What do we do when this happens?
This is not an easy question, nor is their any straight forward answers.
But, we better start talking about it before it becomes a reality
It looks like a lot of corporations are planning to build automated manufacturing plants in The US.
China is becoming more and more hostile to global corporations, and there is no recourse for when Xi the pooh decides that you shall no longer be manufacturing there. Or have a manufacturing plant there. Or...
No property rights in China, thus many corporations are looking at The US because of the excellent property rights, especially for corporations.
There is one big problem. Will their be a customer base in America after the dollar collapses?
Also, the cost of capital has just skyrocketed. Building a plant in The US may be cost prohibitive now. Building a plant in California is already time prohibitive.
However, the evil cabal seem to be planning to build a Silicon Valley 2.0 in Komifornia. You know, where all these houses, mysteriously burned down
Near where they are planning to build a high speed rail system. "A train to nowhere" most called it, but it was pushed by a lot of top govern-cement people.
Well, they cleared out an area for something...
There seems to be a move to bring manufacturing back to America.
Nobody is announcing it, nobody is calling it out... and maybe that is the plan.
But let us say that we built manufacturing plants in America, would anyone work at them?
Amazon seems to get people to work for them, so maybe?
McDs is having trouble getting enough employees, so maybe not?
Will the young generation who seem to be "lying down" (a chinese term of young men 'lying down' /not working) actually want these manufacturing jobs?
What will it take to attract workers?
An actual decent wage?
Able to work only part time?
A job where the boss is not a jerk?
Some profit sharing program?
Or maybe, if you were working for yourself, when you want and how much you wanted.
This time where shipping costs are going up, and shipping may at some point become verboten...
This time where the old, manufacture everything in one large building, becomes unable to work with demand (either too low, or too high)
This time where buying local is starting to mean something.
This time where the right to repair may become the strongest selling point.
This time is almost perfect for starting small, often garage sized, independent & networked, manufacturing.
With CNC controllers becoming almost ubiquitous, any enterprising engineer can make a machine to build parts in his garage.
With blockchain projects already working to manage part distributions we are steps away from having a bunch of garage manufacturers all networked into a giant, decentralized, manufacturing plant.
The only thing i really do not know is how to jump start this thing.
Because you need a group of guys to be building all the parts for a thing, and having people assemble them and sell them. After this, more people can be added quite easily. Scaling and growing becomes quite easy. Almost turnkey. But getting that first group of people, that is difficult.
But, now is the time. We have kickstarter type financing, and a bunch of unemployed men looking for something to give their lives meaning.