"Elon Musk was the latest to try the lights out approach and realised it didn’t work.
Instead, if the US wants to succeed with a competitive manufacturing sector, it needs to look to post-war Japan. Workers were an integral part of the refinement and adaptive nature of manufacturing processes, in part because of the company-based (rather than industry-speciifc) union structure."
https://shows.acast.com/debunkingeconomics/episodes/bringing-manufacturing-home-the-japanese-way
