Manufacturing Meaning

The Difficulty Of Bringing Manufacturing Back

Molson Hart | 7th April 2025

Scathing fourteen-point essay on why tariffs will not bring manufacturing back to the US. Chinese workers have better reading and math abilities, and years of accumulated skill. Manufacturing needs electricity, which has flatlined in the US. Automation won’t save the day; Chinese robots are cheaper. China is working to reduce low-value manufacturing; the US is inexplicably applying tariffs to bring it back (5,300 words)

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Approaching Meaning

Marie Snyder | 3 Quarks Daily | 22nd April 2025

Reflections on the work of psychiatrist Irvin Yalom, who estimated that about half of all cases of depression might be a “crisis of meaninglessness, an existential sickness”. “If nothing matters, it should not matter that nothing matters, and yet it does matter. The question of meaning in life is, as the Buddha taught, not edifying. One must immerse oneself in the river of life and let the question drift away” (4,600 words)