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I was trying to do some DIY projects lately so I needed 2 pieces of 250mm 2020 aluminum extrusions. Cheapest I could find in Europe was 11 euro with cutting and shipping. From temu with delivery - four costed 10 eur. PCB - from jclpcb 5 boards came at a lower cost than in EU they will charge you for answering your email. let alone production. Same with bearings, flanges, housings, transistors, resistors, capacitors and so on.
How do we unfuck ourselves from the situation where China can produce so much, at such a low cost, witch such a degree of automation that they don't even bother with paying low wages or producing low quality anymore. And they seem to accelerate in automation.
On a side note - the only EU company that produced cheap-ish PCB - only 3 times the price of jcl - had such a long lead times, that I am fairly sure they just group the orders and send them to jcl.
Robots.
America can afford massive expenditures on Capital. Americans will generally not accept the low wages for their labor that would allow cheap production of most manufactured goods. Too many well-paying jobs in non-manufacturing sectors.
The only squaring of this circle is industrial robots that can be put to almost any task needed.
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