So in other words the solution might be to start making stuff again
It's all linked.
It's about being practical. It's about Green bullshit. It's about NIMBY'ism.
Classic example. In Australia, right now, there's a shortage of timber, even for the most basic usages. There's people ringing the timber yards who specialize in rare and exotic timbers for Pine, common structural Pine,
because nobody has it.
Australia. The
Continent. Does
not have enough
basic timber. Massive forests. Back in the 1920's, to the 1960's, had the best forest management on the planet, to the point where people flew in to see what we did.
The Greens, and all sorts of inner city folk, who knew nothing about nature, broke that. Because cutting down trees was
bad.
Never mind that the only other options are rip metal from the earth, and we can't have that! Or plastics, gee, how Green can you get!
To boil it down, we're held back by Govenment bullshit, in a thousand different ways. If you want to make stuff, you need a factory, and right now, that requires permission, from multiple Gov agencies. How long will that take? What will it cost? What are the limits for, say, sound? Or carbon? Who makes the machines you need? Can you import them? Will the Gov allow it at all?
Three quarters of our problems with starting manufacturing, are Gov. And, even with prices going through the roof, the bureaucrats aren't going to bend, because they
can't see their role in all this. Also, the
very reason they have a job, is to stop anybody doing this kind of thing.
I could go on, but, really, you guy should understand. When the COVID shutdown hit, a bunch of companies went under, and a few did really, really well. You know who had bugger all change? The bureaucrats. They just kept going, even got a pay rise or two.
Edit: Holy shit. I didn't realise I was writing that much. Well, I guess it just goes to show, this is something I care about. Still..... Holy shit about sums it up.