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Consider Elon's move from California to Texas. His energy costs are vastly reduced, expenses generally are reduced, and he can continue to hire directly in the US and draw directly on US machine shop production capacity.

There should be more machining and making in the US; everyone would like to have solid US-made hardware, but success in small-business machining and manufacturing, and scaling to large scale without off-shoring, requires a discipline and commitment to self-improvement that is difficult to cultivate.