2026-05-07 08:16 UTC
How’s that narrative go when looking at raw material processing? My understanding is that a decent amount of products we manufacture nowadays have their parts manufactured elsewhere in the world and then are just assembled in the US. That would certainly shift the narrative a bit I think.
This is a genuine question. I know we probably still make our own petroleum products, we haven’t manufactured steel since the 1990s, with the collapse starting in the 80s, but everything else is an informational gap for me.
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@MrMakabar@slrpnk.net 2026-05-07 09:00
[The US still makes steel for example.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_steel_production) It fell compared to the 1960s, but is still at about WW2 levels. That is true for a lot of US manufacturing. The industry is still around, but has not grown since years and automation and falling prices makes them less relevant to the overall economy.