LimaUniformNovemberAlpha wrote:Novus America wrote:Why not just throw the criminals in jail for life and leave the rest alone?
Because they have the right to be presumed innocent until proven guilty?
Novus America wrote:If not for the flood of Japanese cars in the 70s onward things would have been better.
That is obvious.
Of course. The question is of whether their supremacy over Detroit was legitimately earned or not.
Novus America wrote:And I do not believe you understand how NAFTA supply chains work.
Not everything would come from Canada.
Energy, raw materials, some parts.
So why not manufacture the cars right where the "raw materials" were extracted, and save on unnecessary shipping costs?
Novus America wrote:There is nothing wrong with the physical location.
Is there?
Americans' main reason for backing out of their "if Trump wins I'm moving to Canada" promise is that "Canada's too cold." Detroit has a climate comparable to Toronto, and it's along the same river as Windsor. If America's advantage over Canada was in its warm summers and/or mild winters, what's the advantage of Canada-esque geography in US territory?
Of course they are innocent until proven guilty. But most serious criminals are repeat offenders.
I am not saying we arrest everyone obviously.
Most people in Detroit are not criminals you know.
Just preventing repeat crimes would drastically cut the crime rate.
Detroit is not nearly as bad as you make it out to be either.
It is not like literally no one wants to live there. It is still a good size city with many successful areas. Just because it also has many really bad or abandoned areas does not mean it is all bad.
Because the shipping costs are a factor, but not the only one. Because the raw materials are not all from the same place you know. The raw materials for one product could come from multiple locations a across the US an Canada.
So placing the factory near only one supplier of many makes less sense than using a central location.
American’s reasons for backing out of their “I am moving to Canada” BS is not because Canada is cold. It is because that was a stupid meme.
New York and Boston are also cold.
The reason for Detroit’s decline was not the weather.