schizoidman@lemmy.zip to World News@quokk.au · 2 days agoFormer MIT president says the US is losing the innovation race to Chinawww.npr.orgexternal-linkmessage-square8fedilinkarrow-up198file-text
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minus-squareStillPaisleyCat@startrek.websitelinkfedilinkarrow-up3·2 days agoIn the 1980s, MIT flagged that the US was losing the productivity/quality race to Japan and South Korea. Despite a great deal of national handwringing on this point, no systematic improvement was made.
minus-squareSaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up2·2 days agoThey flagged the chronic transfer of IP to Asia by US companies. Yet since, Tesla taught China how to build EVs, and Apple invested more in Chinese manufacturing that the fucking US Marshall plan, which has no made local manufacturing impossible.
In the 1980s, MIT flagged that the US was losing the productivity/quality race to Japan and South Korea.
Despite a great deal of national handwringing on this point, no systematic improvement was made.
They flagged the chronic transfer of IP to Asia by US companies.
Yet since, Tesla taught China how to build EVs, and Apple invested more in Chinese manufacturing that the fucking US Marshall plan, which has no made local manufacturing impossible.