The struggle to make things in America.
The WSJ chronicles WS Game trying to build a bespoke version of the Monopoly board game using only American manufacturers. It mostly succeeded, but the result was far more expensive, of worse quality, took too long, and the dice still had to be sourced from China. > In China, WS Game tells factories what it wants, and asks them to make the idea a reality. The U.S. process was reversed. “We figured out what the factories’ capabilities were, then backed into the design.” Now imagine trying to make an iPhone in the US. [Link: The ‘Colossal Headache’ of Building a Made-in-America Monopoly Game | https://www.wsj.com/business/american-made-monopoly-game-tariffs-china-e9a06e68?st=XpHddY&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink | WSJ]
The WSJ chronicles WS Game trying to build a bespoke version of the Monopoly board game using only American manufacturers. It mostly succeeded, but the result was far more expensive, of worse quality, took too long, and the dice still had to be sourced from China. > In China, WS Game tells factories what it wants, and asks them to make the idea a reality. The U.S. process was reversed. “We figured out what the factories’ capabilities were, then backed into the design.” Now imagine trying to make an iPhone in the US. [Link: The ‘Colossal Headache’ of Building a Made-in-America Monopoly Game | | WSJ]
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