and they're still not ramping up armament production. they've had what, 2 years to figure out that this is an attritional war and they're STILL stuck at "but surely you can turn dollar bills directly into artillery shells if you wish hard enough".
for fuck's sake, it's artillery shells, not a mars mission. we know how to make them. we know how to crank them out. they can build amazon warehouses quickly, but somehow couldnt build 92 armament factories in all this time?!
That's the neat part: [I'm slowly getting convinced—they certainly are acting as if they can't—that] because of all the de-industrialization they don't.
eh, there are probably still a bunch of retired workers who could be tempted back for a nice salary. they could teach the newbies how to make this stuff.
and you could get so many actually motivated smart workers if you dropped a plant and offered good salaries for manufacturing work. a lot of these production line improvements tend to come from motivated line workers trying to crank more out.
i dont think the problems are really about know-how. yeah, it's a bottleneck, so you cant just ramp up production in 6 months, but again, they've had at least 2 years. more if you realize that they've been anticipating this war for like a decade.
the main problem is that this political/economic system simply no longer has a button for you know, reality-based intervention by the state. so they're left with pushing the two remaining buttons they have. unfortunately, you cant outsource or austerity your way out of this problem.
and they're still not ramping up armament production. they've had what, 2 years to figure out that this is an attritional war and they're STILL stuck at "but surely you can turn dollar bills directly into artillery shells if you wish hard enough".
for fuck's sake, it's artillery shells, not a mars mission. we know how to make them. we know how to crank them out. they can build amazon warehouses quickly, but somehow couldnt build 92 armament factories in all this time?!
just all around brain geniuses, all of them.
That's the neat part: [I'm slowly getting convinced—they certainly are acting as if they can't—that] because of all the de-industrialization they don't.
eh, there are probably still a bunch of retired workers who could be tempted back for a nice salary. they could teach the newbies how to make this stuff.
and you could get so many actually motivated smart workers if you dropped a plant and offered good salaries for manufacturing work. a lot of these production line improvements tend to come from motivated line workers trying to crank more out.
i dont think the problems are really about know-how. yeah, it's a bottleneck, so you cant just ramp up production in 6 months, but again, they've had at least 2 years. more if you realize that they've been anticipating this war for like a decade.
the main problem is that this political/economic system simply no longer has a button for you know, reality-based intervention by the state. so they're left with pushing the two remaining buttons they have. unfortunately, you cant outsource or austerity your way out of this problem.
I'm entirely with you, and it was just joking.