Cutting tiny screws, forming bits of sheet metal, and populating surface mount components is hard work and doesn't pay well enough domestically, so pretty much all of our manufacturing sector moved to Asia. We kept enough to make satellites and fighter jets, but that only works when your bolt costs $200. We can build it back up, but that will take decades, and will slowly produce expensive, inferior parts along the way
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Ever see a Chinese die transfer? If they fuck up, miss the timing, get an arm lopped off, they just put them on the other side of the press with their good arm.
Got to have those parts! Chinesium steel is gooder. 😂