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What Molson Hart thinks about America

@molson-hart · 21 positions · 0 changes of mind

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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11 dated positions, 2025, in their own words. Our reading of what Molson Hart has said — not written or endorsed by them.

  1. Our readingChinese factory workers are more motivated than American ones because what they want has been getting cheaper against their wages while American housing has not.

    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

    housing

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  3. Our readingRebuilding American manufacturing is a decades-long educational and cultural project, not something tariffs can do.

    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

    Chinatariffs

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  5. Our readingAmerica has an excellent consumer supply chain and a weak industrial one, and having the first tells you nothing about having the second.

    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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  7. Our readingAmerican electricity generation per person has been flat since 2000 while China's has quadrupled, and manufacturing is why.

    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

    energyChina

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  9. Our readingAmerican manufacturing output cannot meaningfully rise without first building large amounts of new electricity generation.

    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

    energyinfrastructurenuclear power

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  11. Our readingBuilding a factory in America takes at least two years before it can open, and months more before it runs well.

    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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  13. Our readingIndustrial robots are not the fix for American manufacturing, and betting on automation misreads why production sits elsewhere.

    Their wordsAutomation will not save us.

    ↗America Underestimates the Difficulty of Bringing Manufacturing Backmolsonhart.com 9th of 16 in this piece

    robotics

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  15. Our readingChina already installs several times more industrial robots a year than the United States does, and cheaper ones.

    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

    Chinarobotics

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  17. Our readingThe 2018 tariffs moved production to Vietnam rather than back to the United States.

    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

    Chinatariffs

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  19. Our readingTariffs on imported components and machinery hurt the American manufacturers they are supposed to help.

    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

    tariffs

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  21. Our readingAmerica should issue manufacturing visas for knowhow rather than for labour.

    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

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