Molson Hart
Manufacturer and founder of Viahart, which makes educational toys. He has spent fifteen years manufacturing in China, Southeast Asia and the Americas, worked on a Chinese factory floor and built a factory in Texas, and writes about what moving a production line actually involves at molsonhart.com.
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Their wordsYes, the labor is cheaper, but that’s not really why.
↗Chinese Labor Isn't Just Cheaper; It’s Better. We Need to Fix That.molsonhart.com 1st of 4 in this piece
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Their wordsEven so, the flexible adaptable human will be working in manufacturing (alongside machines) for decades to come.
↗Chinese Labor Isn't Just Cheaper; It’s Better. We Need to Fix That.molsonhart.com 2nd of 4 in this piece
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Their wordsBetween 2015 and 2025 US manufacturing wages rose 40%, while the cost of purchasing a home rose 93%.
↗Chinese Labor Isn't Just Cheaper; It’s Better. We Need to Fix That.molsonhart.com 3rd of 4 in this piece
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Their wordsAmerica needs an educational and cultural transformation to compete with China and reverse the decline in living standards that Americans have suffered over decades.
↗Chinese Labor Isn't Just Cheaper; It’s Better. We Need to Fix That.molsonhart.com 4th of 4 in this piece
- 9 months earlier
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Their wordsThat’s because America has an amazing consumer supply chain, one of the best, if not the best in the world, but this is totally different from having an industrial supply chain.
↗America Underestimates the Difficulty of Bringing Manufacturing Backmolsonhart.com 1st of 16 in this piece
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Their wordsEven with infinite money, we cannot duplicate that, because we lack the knowhow.
↗America Underestimates the Difficulty of Bringing Manufacturing Backmolsonhart.com 2nd of 16 in this piece
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Their wordsThe people who knew how to build and repair molds have either passed away or are long retired.
↗America Underestimates the Difficulty of Bringing Manufacturing Backmolsonhart.com 3rd of 16 in this piece
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Their wordsIt’s the work ethic, knowhow, commitment, combined with top notch infrastructure, that makes China the most powerful manufacturing country in the world today.
↗America Underestimates the Difficulty of Bringing Manufacturing Backmolsonhart.com 4th of 16 in this piece
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Their wordsSince the year 2000, US electricity generation per person has been flat.
↗America Underestimates the Difficulty of Bringing Manufacturing Backmolsonhart.com 5th of 16 in this piece
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energyAmericainfrastructurenuclear power
Their wordsWithout the construction of huge amounts of new energy infrastructure, like nuclear power plants, we cannot meaningfully increase our manufacturing output.
↗America Underestimates the Difficulty of Bringing Manufacturing Backmolsonhart.com 6th of 16 in this piece
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Their wordsIt takes at least, in the most favorable of jurisdictions, 2 years (if you can get the permits) to build a factory in the United States.
↗America Underestimates the Difficulty of Bringing Manufacturing Backmolsonhart.com 7th of 16 in this piece
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Their wordsThe tariffs have frozen business activity because no one wants to take a big risk dependent on a policy that may change next week.
↗America Underestimates the Difficulty of Bringing Manufacturing Backmolsonhart.com 8th of 16 in this piece
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Their wordsAutomation will not save us.
↗America Underestimates the Difficulty of Bringing Manufacturing Backmolsonhart.com 9th of 16 in this piece
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Their wordsFirst, China, on a yearly basis installs 7x as many industrial robots as we do in the United States.
↗America Underestimates the Difficulty of Bringing Manufacturing Backmolsonhart.com 10th of 16 in this piece
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Their wordsThey are not useful in industrial environments where, if a humanoid robot can do it, an industrial machine which is specialized in the task can do it even better.
↗America Underestimates the Difficulty of Bringing Manufacturing Backmolsonhart.com 11th of 16 in this piece
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Their wordsWhen the United States applied tariffs to China, it shifted huge amounts of manufacturing to Vietnam, which did not have tariffs applied to it.
↗America Underestimates the Difficulty of Bringing Manufacturing Backmolsonhart.com 12th of 16 in this piece
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Their wordsThey applied the same tax to the components that you need to make things in America that they did to finished goods that were made outside of America.
↗America Underestimates the Difficulty of Bringing Manufacturing Backmolsonhart.com 13th of 16 in this piece
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Their wordsWhen the factory floor is down the hall, instead of 30 hours of travel away, it’s easier to make improvements and invent.
↗America Underestimates the Difficulty of Bringing Manufacturing Backmolsonhart.com 14th of 16 in this piece
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Every country that has succeeded at manufacturing set the conditions first and then moved slowly.
Their wordsEvery country that has gone on a brilliant run of manufacturing first established the right conditions and then proceeded slowly.
↗America Underestimates the Difficulty of Bringing Manufacturing Backmolsonhart.com 15th of 16 in this piece
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Their wordsGrant manufacturing visas, not for labor, but for knowhow.
↗America Underestimates the Difficulty of Bringing Manufacturing Backmolsonhart.com 16th of 16 in this piece
- 4 years earlier
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Their wordsWe are transitioning from a world where everything is made in China, to one where everything is designed and sold by China too.