Turns out that hasn't been true for a long time. I'm sure the cost of labor is lower than America, but there would be other countries where it's even far lower. So they don't go to China because the wages are low, because they could get lower wages in a lot of places. They go there because China has a massive educational advantage in how to build a factory. Because building a factory is its own special skill, especially if you're building an assembly line and you're building the robotics and the manufacturing techniques that go into the building. It's not the building, it's the manufacturing techniques.

So apparently the whole skill of tooling up a manufacturing site is something that there are tons of Chinese citizens who have been trained to do it. And in America you could put them all in one room. So there's a skill in building manufacturing sites that we don't have, and we're in trouble. How much difference does it make? Oh, I don't know. Let's ask Lucky Farmer, who is a young billionaire type who's building a defense business himself with more high-tech defense stuff like drones and whatnot. But he says the United States, if we were to get in a war, we only have three weeks of ammunition. After three weeks of war, the United States would have to say, "Hey, um, I got an idea. Would you guys like to stop fighting? Because we're out of weapons." Yeah, we have the weapons, we just don't have the things that go in them, you know, like rockets. We don't have any missiles and rockets and bullets left.

But you say to yourself, well, we could make more, right? Nope. We don't have the manufacturing capability to make more ammunition at all. It's not like you can make the factory work harder. There's no factory. And if there is a factory, it depends on China for parts. No, we can't make weapons. If we started a war, we'd lose for sure unless we went nuclear. So basically the only weapons we have that work are nuclear, because everything else we just run out of them in three weeks. Oh well.

Here's some good news. The NOAA, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association of A-holes or something, I don't know, but it's a group that does the weather forecast, the climate forecasting for the federal government, and they've ordered a new hundred-million-dollar high-performance computer to help them with their predictions. Let me see if I understand this story. Their predictions are currently perfect, or perfect enough that you would spend billions of dollars, maybe trillions, to believe them and operate under the assumption that you know the climate's getting warmer and the CO2 is causing it. So if you know that and you know it so certainly that the entire American economy is based on it, why do they need a new computer if they al