[relativitypro]

Saying it is easy to ramp up machinery implies that it actually is... while your point that human capital is more valuable than tools is correct, ask yourself why a sophisticated pump costs 10k$ and requires a medically trained person to operate it.

There is a lot of money to be made by keeping these barriers in place, through legal, technical means and by limiting people’s access to “experts” that know what to do with them.

[cycrutchfield]

Yes, the only thing stopping us from 3D printing ventilators and hooking them up to patients are those evil “barriers” we call regulations.