It depends what the minimal needs are, but basically the US has this for chips already. Yes the US only makes older chips, but in fact those are the ones that really matter, that you can’t do without. The ones that are in everything.

However making everything domestically just isn’t really viable for any country any more. The scale of our technological civilization and the diversity of goods and materials it depends on is more that any one continent can support, let alone one country.

It would be possible to collapse that down to one continent if absolutely necessary, but it would be incredibly economically painful and the US would need to give up on a lot of non-essentials and other priorities to devote resources to duplicating capacity that already exists elsewhere.

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jvanderbot 3 days ago | parent | next [-]

Buying rocks and exporting chips is fine. Of course it's not that extreme but the sentiment is there. It's about expertise capital and concentrating that domestically.

	▲	estearum 3 days ago \| parent [-]
		But at the expense of what? We’re not lopping off the rock farmer end of the economy to redirect efforts toward chips.

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onetimeusename 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I am not sure about this. There was a chip shortage from Taiwan a few years ago that led to an auto shortage https://www.npr.org/2021/04/28/991270369/taiwan-races-to-rem...

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ksec 3 days ago | parent | prev [-]

I think it is not about one country doing to all. But technology transfer should happen within like minded countries and within a smaller circle. So may be two continents max.