I've been wanting to mention something for a while now, but got some stuff come up in work that was more mentally challenging than I thought so I wanted to give myself some breathing space in my head.
Now seems like a good time to just move us all towards a more 'pacified' conversation.
My subject?
MILLWRIGHTS!!!
Before we talk about what a Millwright is in case you don't know we'll just go over what a Millwright is
not.
A Millwright is
not someone who works with windmills nor is it someone who does millwork/mill cabinetry. The similarity ends as soon as you see the word "mill" that's literally the only thing all 3 of those things have in common.
So what exactly is a millwright?
A better term that is sometimes used is something along the lines of "Industrial Maintenance Technician". In a nutshell, a Millwright is the guy who does the actual repairing, fixing, and/or maintenancing of all the manufacturing equipment, machines, and/or industrial machinery.
All those factories that make cars. Who fixes the actual stuff inside of the factory/manufacturing line? Millwrights. All those factories who make chocolate? Millwrights fix that stuff. All those factories who make paper? Millwrights. Factories that make guns? Millwrights. Factories that make toys? Millwrights again. Furniture factories? Millwrights! Medicinal/pharma manufacturers? Millwrights!
Millwrights, millwrights, MILLLLLLLLLLL-WRIGHTTTTTTTSSSSSS!!!
It's millwrights all the way down.
At this point I will pause temporarily and say that if you didn't know what a millwright was don't blame yourself. There's literally people who've worked construction 6 years, 8 years, 14 years, etc. since high school and they don't know what a millwright is.
Take note of what I just said above because it'll become relevant later on, but yes think about that for a second. Think about how utterly pathetic and degraded the American blue collar/industrial realm is if even other blue collar workers who've spent their whole working lives until their 30's don't even know just what a millwright is exactly.
America has a terrifyingly bad shortage of millwrights 
And of course since we're all on SDF we all know that military
stuff and things requires some pretty damn high advanced manufacturing and industrializing of that economy thing. And that's only during peacetime.
In wartime, this need to manufacture and really maximize the producitivity of your industrialization gets amplified to a ridiculous amount. Far more than what was necessary before.
One of those things that will need to be increased is the number of millwrights and
good fucking millwrights!
That's right boys and girls. You don't really think that a millwright who worksfor companies making printing paper or cardboard boxes is going to be anywhere near as good or have the right skillset as the guy who is working on the factory that's making hypersonic missiles...or the defensive missiles needed to (try) shoot them down right?
Because that's now a second problem with millwrights here in the good ole' U.S. of Ayyyyyyyyyy
Remember how I said that even experienced blue collar workers don't even know just what a millwright is?
Ya imagine how bad the lack of high-skilled and high-technical knowledge and qualifications is for the kind of millwrights you need in order to make sure that all those factories that are supposed to be making F35, THAAD radars, Patriot and Tomahawk missiles, stinger missiles, etc. is.
For millwrights to successfully diagnose, troubleshoot, fix, repair, replace, maintenance, calibrate, and just overall understand what the fuck is going on in that big ole' complex expensive super machinery that's making all those million-dollar weapons he should be
extremely proficient in things like vibration analysis for industrial applications, dynamic balancing, rotating equipment, hydraulics, etc.
Well guess what? most manufacturing and therefore most millwrights by extension in America are not going to have that under their belt. Precisely because they've spent the last 50 years de-industrializing. They've spent 50 years making sure that more and more of their factories are for simple and easy stuff like chocolate and candy factories, dog chew toys (lol at the irony of how they used to talk so much shit about how China is only good for manufacturing dog toys), raw steel (I should've bought U.S. Steel stock 18 months ago...fuck man), cars (ok fine I'll give the victory to them on this one), lumber, packaging (not so much like bubble wrap but think of the tools that you need to put packaging materials onto the product), hand tools (milwaukee, dewalt), other food and drinks.
But look at what's missing there.
Look at all the stuff there and how much do each individual thing cost to make you think? Pennies? Dollars? Maybe some thousands or barely past $10,000?
They're missing the stuff that costs six figures just to make at the minimum. They are missing stuff that costs millions to make at the minimum.
At the very least there's not a whole
lot of American places where that happens.
Ya well guess what? It's the millwrights in those factories whom are going to be most necessary for the war when you need to churn out thousands multipled by thousands of munitions and ordinance and all that military stuff that they are so happy to brag about.
Now before anyone thinks that you can just go ahead and either do without millwrights, quickly train millwrights to a high level of skill, or import millwrights from like canada or wherever consider this.
The problem with that idea is that it's going to take quite some time to find the necessary quantity and quality of millwrights needed to make sure that you are able to operate those factories at or near full maximum productivity. And you will need that when fighting against the world's oldest surviving civilization.
How long? Apprenticeships take 4-5 years depending on place, but truthfully nobody gets an apprenticeship as a greenhorn. Most people start in some other related-career such as machinist, mechanic, factory worker, etc. and then an employer looks for a "Helper" position (which sucks at pay btw), and then after a year or so of that you formally begin your apprenticeship. At w;hich point 4-5 years later you become a journeyman...which means you are as good of a millwright as a brand new engineer or brand new lawyer or
possibly (and I mean very possibly) a brand new doctor. In other words, someone absolutely not good enough for the needs of military manufacturing.
Quite frankly, it will take years to train an already licensed or Red Sealed Millwright into one who's competent enough to work well at a military manufacturing place, and that's just one person. You need a bunch.
So during this whole time that you can't manufacture all those military things and stuff to full capacity China will be taking out plenty of NATO/Western military things and stuff.
What this translates to in real life is that China simply has to do stuff like massive oversaturation of American and Lackeys defenses and then watch as the Americans and Lackeys get overrun or flattened by overwhelming Chinese firepower. They are helpless to do anything because the Americans will
try to increase military manufacturing to the level needed to wage war on this scale. They will gleefully and happily tell themselves "iN W0rLD WAR tU wE MaDe a BAJILLI0n-GAZiLLion things and stufF" at first...and walk right into a trap of their own making. This trap being called "tripping over your own two damn feet while walking on perfectly solid and even ground that has no obstructions to cause you to make such a stupid mistake as tripping over your own two damn feet".
As soon as they ramp up production those machines will break down like no other.
That's what happens to industrial machinery. It's the same reason why you can't fly F35, J20, SU57 too long without lots of manpower maintenace and repair hours. it's just what expensive machinery is like.
And
BAM!!! Mistake is made since there's not enough millwrights to keep up with all the repairs necessary. Production will slow badly at some places or even outright be stopped. Thus the flow of munitions, ordinance, equipment, weapons, etc. will stop too. Things that might or might not have been able to stop a chinese missile from blowing up some marines who posting up tiktoks about how angry they are that they have to kill brown arabs instead of yellow chinese...same soldiers who aren't even white themselves (note that it's for that reason <<<---- that I no longer have
any sympathy for even poor non-white Americans now...they happily would send Chinese in America to concentration camps because it would mean that they are now the oppressors and not the victims. It's like a kid who is bullied and then a new kid comes and now everyone else bullies the new kid and the old victim is the biggest bully of them all because he knows that if its not the new kid it goes back to being him).
Anyways, this is just a high level overview of it.
I won't have everything covered, but I do believe I have enough to know that America will definitely experience a rude awakening with the lack of people qualified to actually fix the damn machines and factories once they are used to their 100% full potential whenever they want to do a false flag incident.
I mean just look at the UAW victory recently. Those kinds of jobs and workers are
not highly skilled at all. And yet there obviously is not enough of them to go around for the companies because if there were enough workers than the employers would simply hire non-union and give the finger to the union.
If you can't even fix the shortage of low-skilled, low-talented workers than you won't be able to fix the shortage with high-skilled ones.
