[vpribish]

take a deep breath, my friend, it's not the apocalypse. the US still has and is still creating new manufacturing. Tesla in the bay area. Boeing, the oil industry, all of biotech and medical devices. Even in the maker-type-world dig what Adafruit is doing is Brooklyn.

The good ol' days of a middle-class factory floor producing widgets with hand-operated tools is pretty much gone because of labor costs - gone to japan, mexico, then china, and now just gone-gone to automation. If you want to be a Randian captain of industry - that ship has sailed, docked, offloaded, and been towed to the breakers in south asia. If you care more about making new and better things more quickly, this is the best it's ever been.