Yes you reduce material usage and cost. Energy as well.
Machine output is the leveraging of the actual labor. Not reduce. Leverage.
Not quite.
The machine does the actual leveraging (more production at a lower cost). HOWEVER, the cost of the inputs combined with the cost of of labor determines which method actually works. A prime example of the problem is why Boeing is having production problems in SCâand not in Seattle.
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Some, certainly not all. A fair part of R&D is building prototypes and testing them against the design standards. That requires actual, uh, building and testing and evaluation by humans. If youâre crashing cars you have to build the cars and the test mechanism and actually do the test. It would make little sense to make Fordâs and ship them to India so they could send a fax back.
Likewise if youâre developing a drug, the FDA is going to want to see actual human beings and drugs being manufactured and dispensed and monitored here than in some remote country.
And so on.
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India, for instance, has a rather large auto industry, 4.3M cars sold in India in 2023, almost all built in India, due to that countryâs very high tariffs on imported cars. Indian industry is perfectly capable of building and testing prototypes. India also has a well developed pharma industry. The âknowledge workâ that is done by college graduates and highly skilled people in the US can certainly be offshored, with the fruits of their labors imported via fibre, tariff free.
Steve
So you think it will be worthwhile to take dozens of Fords, ship them to India, and crash test them there, then send a report back to Detroit, and the NTSA will accept that? OK. And Boeing is going to fly its prototypes to New Delhi and run the airworthiness tests there and the FAA will say âFine by us.â?
I think youâre a bit out over your skis.
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The new, improved FAA will.
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They ALL get sent to Indiaâone way. One issue: The prototype plane they are on may not arrive at its destination in India. Guess why⌠But, they GOTTA GO on THAT plane.
No. The prototypes would be entirely built in India. The Indian auto industry is perfectly capable of doing that.
Same with aircraft. HAL is perfectly capable of doing just about anything Boeing could want, and probably do a better job of it, given Boeingâs recent track record.
Steve
You just moved the entire design and development teams out of the US. Guess who will NOT be invited back to the US.
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That is what I have been saying: outsource all the âknowledgeâ work, to countries that finance their peopleâs education. That way, the US education system can be defunded down to âBantu educationâ levels, for menial work, and the âJCsâ can have another tax cut.
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