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Who Wants to Work in a Factory?
Notes on manufacturing and our posterity.
Throughout my career, I’ve visited towns all over the United States to help companies and inventors develop products, and in every single place—from one-stoplight villages in the rural Northeast to the tech hubs of the Bay Area—I see people brimming with new ideas. On one build area you can see parts for an open source humanoid robot, on others pieces for a chess set, on another a cookie cutter that will be used to make baked goods for a club fundraiser, and on yet another a prototype for a project in the summer to explore Lake Michigan with mostly printed aquatic drones. We need to measure our success by tangible production outcomes, not by how loudly we proclaim “jobs are coming back.” Government grants for workforce programs should focus on clear results: more skilled graduates, modernized factories, and higher incomes in revitalized manufacturing towns.
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