You cannot simply drop a factory anywhere. Even assuming away the problems of the supply chain, there are a lot of fiddle bits on the art and science of running factories. Who knows them? People who run factories. Where do you find them? By the factories that they work at.
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So you *actually* end up dropping a factory down in e.g. Aichi Prefecture, where manufacturing culture is so thick on the ground that my wife picked up a third of an undergrad degree by sheer osmosis. (“You didn’t use factory floors as an example in geometry class? Why not?”)
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This extends to “Why do all the software companies persist in locating in the worst city in the world to build a software company in?” Because you can, if you have money and diligence, hire 10 engineers, a PM, a sales team, and a COO tomorrow.
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