The marriage of technology and manufacturing could be the salvation for which our nation is searching. The prospect of 4%+ GDP growth does not come from SaaS, banking, real estate, investing, or AI. The opportunity to achieve sustainable GDP expansion comes by way of improved production. Agnostic of debt cycles, we are an industrial society; the idea of a post-industrial economy is a dream cooked up by nihilists. In the pursuit of profits, we have disincentivized trade skills, hollowed out industry, become addicted to services, and enriched our rivals to magnitudes that now threaten our way of life.
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