well... i'm not convinced. a lot of machinery sits idle in the us. as an example, in the 80's the companies that manufactured vacuum tubes were already gone. ham radio nerds bemoaned the loss of the 572b vacuum tube.  sometime in the early 2000's a company bought the machine that made those tubes and started making them. that plant had been out of commission for a long time. i have heard of looms being kept in old buildings all over the south. textile could easily make a comeback. but i suspect we are about to witness the end of centralized manufacturing and the beginning of massive cottage industry. each home will produce a widget. each home will be treated as a business. america will become the utopia of self-sufficient people it once was because business is currently being transformed and globalism is done.
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