There is a sense that America has no hope of competing on things like microwaves, small plastic products, or any individual component of a larger object.
But this misses the point that low end, small value items end up having a huge network effect on both our national manufacturing skills, and on the larger communities.
Having no hand in making the millions of little things that surround us robs us of the inventiveness that characterized generations of Americans before, it hollows out communities because they are no longer supported by the smaller manufacturing concerns they once were centered around economically, and it plays a large hand in exacerbating inequality because production of high end products tend to have highly concentrated wage scales too.
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