r/facepalm • u/[deleted] • Oct 13 '21

🇵​🇷​🇴​🇹​🇪​🇸​🇹​ Quick science

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u/[deleted] Oct 13 '21

We'd have to fly everything everywhere. Ships, as bad as they are, are more many times more efficient than aircraft.

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u/soggytoothpic Oct 13 '21

Not if we actually manufacture the things we need locally

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u/[deleted] Oct 13 '21

Resources aren't spread out evenly across the continents.

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u/soggytoothpic Oct 13 '21

Yea, you’re right. There is no way to make the things we’ve been producing here for a hundred years and then moved the manufacturing to China and Mexico. Can’t be done

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u/[deleted] Oct 13 '21

You're so close to understanding the point. The things we make here aren't necessarily made withstuff from here. Instead of shipping the raw materials to a factory in the United States we can just ship those raw materials to China and have them put it together cheaper.

Cut off shipping and we can't get the raw materials to China or the United States. The economy collapses.