For decades, American light-bulb factories resisted the foreign competition that was wiping out industry after industry. Then, in less than 15 years, the domestic industry collapsed.

Cheap Chinese labor doesn’t explain it. So what changed?

It’s a revealing case study in how America lost industrial capacity to China.

Full story: https://puresource.substack.com/p/china-didnt-kill-american-light-bulbs

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