better working conditions for all, with absolutely no downsides for anyone anywhere!

It is almost like just hiring employees so the competition does not, and staffing up to support largely speculative growth projects wasn't actually all that smart.

Sometimes you have to decide which tradeoff to make. Do you want domestic production, or do you want a low price?

There are advantages and disadvantages to both.

I know, I know (waves hand dorkily) - how about "I'll take things that never happened for $1000 Alex!"? Everyone loves that one!

Yes, the coffee is spewing here, lol!

The I-hate-Elon crowd literally built their own little alternative Twitter universe to go hide in after Elon bought Twitter ... it's like the pot calling a shiny white kettle black!

Well, it can be. "This sledgehammer keeps breaking all my screws."

Bottom line: if you're a US company and you make sneakers, you can be (and many are) a design-only shop and your stuff can be made abroad. And the design work can happen overseas too. With aerospace this just isn't possible.

The economics and methodology are different. Here, labor costs dominate so labor is what gets skimped on. There, labor is cheap and material costs dominate, so the materials are what gets skimped on. You can design something to minimize touch labor but still not fall apart it you look at it funny, but if you cheap out on the plastic or the adhesives it's going to fall apart fast.

I mean exactly what I said. If you run an aerospace company in the US, you can't hire foreign nationals, subcontract parts of your rocket or satellite to foreign companies without an export license *for the system requirements in your rfp* and you can't have it launched abroad without an export license.

In practice this doesn't mean you can't have foreign parts, just that they need to be entirely off-the-shelf, which most specialized aerospace components are not.

Pissing on a whole service branch as "cosplay" by association because you don't like the guy who signed the legislation is boorish when a civilian does it and poor stewardship of the machinery of the state when an elected official does it.

Before it was a space force installation, it was an air force installation. The air force was split off as an independent service in 1947, having previously been a branch of the Army under the War Department. The Navy was its own cabinet level department, dating back to the days of the Confederation Congress. They were merged in 1947 under a single department.

Would a cape canaveral war station be more to your liking?

Not to mention the pollution from the launches. Counting down the years until Kessler kicks in.

Much faster hollowing out aerospace manufacturing and giving it all away to the Chinese the same way much of the rest of American heavy industry and low/medium value manufacturing has gone.

Cheaper shit at walmart and on amazon doesn't make up for the fact that we can't even clothe ourselves without the CCP's permission.

I have no idea what your point is at all. Seriously, are you OK? Just to make it clear - I am against governments, I am against governments using any technology to make it easier for government to oppress people and this is one instrument of oppression.

Been going on since the 90s. Didn't change a thing.