• UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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    23 hours ago

    Or is that a narrative you’d like to believe because it supports Western “greatness”?

    It’s the profits of Western imperialism. For all the talk of Free Markets, the US has insoourced critical manufacturing for a host of products. Especially high margin technologies.

    The US can build cars at a global scale because it can make every compartment of the car in house. Honduras and the Philippines and Azerbaijan and Egypt simply can’t do that.