[nickff]

Would you take on the cost and risk of additional machines and employees for an ephemeral market and small margins?

[sfteus]

For the public good? Absolutely. Even more so if the government subsidized part of it to help ensure those goods were available to their citizens.

[mynameisvlad]

But you wouldn't be taking on that cost and risk. That's the whole point of subsidizing manufacturing. To alleviate said cost and risk in desperate times.

You know, like a global pandemic. That's a pretty desperate time, IMO.