Comments by "Piccalilli Pit" (@piccalillipit9211) on "Krugman Calls Trump Tariffs 'Really, Really Destructive'" video.

IM ALL FOR SAVING WORKING PEOPLED JOBS but here is something you have to realise - the US [and the West in general] no longer HAS the skilled people, the educated people, the companies that make the machines that make stuff, the institutional knowledge. Am3ric4 wants to build more ships - it cant - the LIMITING factor is the skilled labour... You can put all the tariffs you want on Chinese ships, you still got to buy em. Once you lose these skills and systems, its really hard to get them back
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This was my comment: IM ALL FOR SAVING WORKING PEOPLED JOBS but here is something you have to realise - the US [and the West in general] no longer HAS the skilled people, the educated people, the companies that make the machines that make stuff, the institutional knowledge. Am3ric4 wants to build more ships - it cant - the LIMITING factor is the skilled labour... You can put all the tariffs you want on Chinese ships, you still got to buy em. Once you lose these skills and systems, its really hard to get them back
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@bipl8989 Yeah I mean its AMAZING landing a rocket propulsively on the earth - 50 years after NASA landed a rocket propulsively on the Moon.
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The UK did with Brexit - you might want to have a look how tat worked out
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Im in Europe - I watch truly global news. the US news is probably the worst in the world, 100% partisan and explains nothing. The 2nd worst is WION in India and even that way better than the US
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@bipl8989 Between 1918 and about 2000 all the weather veins in the UK were flat 2D cutouts of animals in profile, before that they were mostly 3D made from beaten copper in the shape of a fox or a cockerel etc. Every single person who could make them was unlived in WW2. Someone rediscovered the technique in about 2000 and now you can buy them everywhere, its not THAT complicated, just a case of softening the copper correctly so it stretches but does not ear as you hammer it on a bad of lead shot. But even something as relatively simple as that - once the institutional knowledge and skill have gone - its REALLY hard to get it back. The UK lost 200 trades in WW1.
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@bipl8989 OH I know the answer to this. Elon is obsessed with making it all out of stainless steel cos that is cool and he will NOT let go of this - but its 3X the density of aluminium and about 1.3X the density weight to strength for the alloys you would use for space travel - so its TOO HEAVY to have legs. So the chop sticks are because stainless shiny and cool. Also - this is why it will never actually work - cos its just TOO HEAVY to carry stuff to orbit. If he changed to aluminium and carbon fibre for the 1st stage and a disposable 2nd stage it would be working and functional NOW.
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