| ▲ | miki123211 3 hours ago | |
Because: 1. Factories take time to build. 2. Building factories requires capital to be invested now. 3. The return-on-capital will only be obtained in the next n years. 4. But if demand goes down, we'll have much more supply than demand, leading to a cutthroat price competition, which could prevent the factory costs from ever being recouped. | ||
| ▲ | HerbManic an hour ago | parent [-] | |
No 4 is why nobody is willing to really move on new fascilities. China is doing it but that was for merely creating tech independence. | ||