The idea of maintaining local production rather than relying on trade isn't about learning how to produce specific goods, but about learning how to produce *in general,* developing an infrastructure and labor force that can adapt and customize their production for any needs
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Cultivating this sort of flexible skilled labor pool & infrastructure/logistical network is what I hope will happen to New England (it happened here before, after all!)
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Economic development works its way up supply chains like a flame working its way along a fuse--people start localizing production of common inputs to growing industries, then people start localizing the inputs of THOSE inputs, etc...
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The saga of the former Rao's Coffee in Amherst illustrates some very small-scale versions of this effect (cafe proliferation leading to proliferation in local coffee roasters & syrup/flavoring producers)http://www.masslive.com/business-news/index.ssf/2016/01/raos_rebrands_cafes_in_northampton_and_amherst.html …
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Really need some bright young entrepreneurs to get into the business of kitchen supply now
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