If manufacturing collapses in the US, it will take decades to dig out of that hole. It could be something small like the lack of a plasticizer addtive. For the want of a nail and all that.
I’m actually more concerned with this middle-case. Consider fire-retardant additives for injection-molded plastics becoming unavailable or too expensive to get. That’s one of those things that requires someone to either ignore the law, or maybe politicians move the goalposts in order to save face; you wouldn’t notice in the end product right away. Meanwhile, standards on consumer goods drop by just that much, and things are a little less safe. Only that times how ever many other little corner-cases like this fall by the wayside, for products in every industry (e.g. food).
Whether or not he crashes the economy, I think it’s almost a forgone conclusion that what you’re describing happens.
They’re already loosening standards/funding at the FDA, CDC, and FAA. I wouldn’t be suprised if these wingnuts deregulated CFCs and asbestos. Whatever manufacturers ask for, they can probably get; especially if they can call it climate change hoax or nanny state BS.
It will result in so much death and suffering. Some of it will take decades to manifest like relaxing allowable carcinogens.
I’m actually more concerned with this middle-case. Consider fire-retardant additives for injection-molded plastics becoming unavailable or too expensive to get. That’s one of those things that requires someone to either ignore the law, or maybe politicians move the goalposts in order to save face; you wouldn’t notice in the end product right away. Meanwhile, standards on consumer goods drop by just that much, and things are a little less safe. Only that times how ever many other little corner-cases like this fall by the wayside, for products in every industry (e.g. food).
Yup.
Systems are fragile.
Ours is like a house of cards and we just let a felon rapist pedophile come in and knock it all over.
We’ll be seeing the effects, large and small, for a long, long time.
I’m sure it’d be sold as “toughening people up like in the good old days before woke pussies”.
Whether or not he crashes the economy, I think it’s almost a forgone conclusion that what you’re describing happens.
They’re already loosening standards/funding at the FDA, CDC, and FAA. I wouldn’t be suprised if these wingnuts deregulated CFCs and asbestos. Whatever manufacturers ask for, they can probably get; especially if they can call it climate change hoax or nanny state BS.
It will result in so much death and suffering. Some of it will take decades to manifest like relaxing allowable carcinogens.