More like we've spent decades offshoring every step of the manufacturing pipeline - from material processing to manufacturing tooling and all the skills and expertise in between - and now it's reached a state where even if you wanted to spin up manufacturing on the same scale locally, you need those decades again to bring every part of the economy back to support it.
That's true, but the GP still has a point. Manufacturing is easier in countries with less regulation about it. Yet we have to ask ourselves, how do we want to live?
I mean, we have those regulations because nobody wants to live in Lahore, Pakistan.
I bought a G5 Pro back in the day, the last with the Motorola chips. The thing was a beast, even though the hardware was superseded by the intel architecture. I used it as my rendering rig throughout university, and the machine kept chugging along for years and felt perfectly fine and snappy all the way up to when OSX dropped support for it.
I ended up gutting the case and building it into an ATX machine, and eventually sold it to a friend. But it was a fantastic computer.
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