Too late. Outsourcing has already accomplished this.

No one is making cool shit for themselves. Everyone is held hostage ensuring Wall Street growth.

The "cross our fingers and hope for the best" position we find ourselves in politically is entirely due to labor capture.

The US benefited from a social network topology of small businesses. No single business being a lynch pin that would implode everything.

Now the economy is a handful of too big to fails eroding links between human nodes by capturing our agency.

I argued as hard as I could against shipping electronics manufacturing overseas so the next generation would learn real engineering skills. But 20 something me had no idea how far up the political tree the decision was made back then. I helped train a bunch of people's replacements before the telecom focused network hardware manufacturer I worked for then shut down.

American tech workers are now primarily cloud configurators and that's being automated away.

This is a decades long play on the part of aging leadership to ensure Americans feel their only choice is capitulate.

What are we going to do, start our own manufacturing business? Muricans are fish in a barrel.

And some pretty well connected people are hinting at similar sense of what's wrong: https://www.barchart.com/story/news/36862423/weve-done-our-c...