Thread by @SaysSimulation

I was thinking about the CHIPS Act when writing the shipbuilding threads.

No nation can be globally competitive while mandating that most jobs be awarded in a racial & gender-based spoils system. A nation that doesn't do that - like China - will outcompete them every time.
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https://twitter.com/OderintMetuant/status/2003815873535229952

The new semiconductors plants are in fact a massive, patronage-based looting of the American people. The national debt is being increased by what can be millions of dollars per new job, with the substantial majority of the new jobs being reserved for nonwhites & women.
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This - of course - means that the new plants will never be globally competitive, and should the massive federal funding ever stop, they would quickly shut down. Typical Dem politics, and the mainstream Repubs are 100% on board as well.
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The default for any new shipbuilding yards is that they will be staffed on a DEI basis, because that is how American industry works these days, Trump's statements notwithstanding. That means they will be slow, ineffective, and non-competitive. No new battleships in 10 years.
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That was part of the reason for the shipbuilding threads - the recognition that do actually do that, to rebuild American shipbuilding, will require radical political & cultural changes relative to today, as exemplified by the CHIPS Act.
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